“Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography,” September 12 Colloquium with Kinder-Oxford Fellow Tom Arnold-Foster

To kick off the Kinder Institute’s Fall 2025 Colloquium Series, Prof. Tom Arnold-Foster, the Kinder Career Development Fellow at Oxford’s Rothermere American Institute, will preview his new Princeton University Press monograph, Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography, which traces Lippmann’s wide-ranging influence on American politics as both a journalist and political theorist. The talk will be held on September 12 at 3:30pm in Jesse Hall 410, and this post will be updated with live stream links when they become available.

Abstract

Few writers had more influence on American politics in the twentieth century than Walter Lippmann. From the Progressive Era to the Cold War, as both a journalist and political theorist, Lippmann shaped major debates about liberalism and democracy, the nature of public opinion, US power and empire, and the roles of journalists, experts, and citizens. This lecture introduces a new book about his life and political thought: Tom Arnold-Forster’s Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography (Princeton, 2025).

Tom Arnold-Forster is a historian of the modern United States and the Kinder Career Development Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. His writing has appeared in the Historical Journal, Modern Intellectual History, the Journal of American Studies, and Dissent, among other publications.