For GOP, days of chaos
With three weeks until the presidential election, Donald Trump’s candidacy has engulfed the Republican Party in a historic level of existential turmoil that appears even more acrimonious than Barry Goldwater’s bitter 1964 campaign. Party leaders have distanced themselves from Trump and dozens of rank-and-file Republicans have openly disavowed support for him following news of vulgar remarks he made about women in a 2005 recording. Tanking poll numbers show his campaign is also damaging other Republican candidates. In response, Trump has declared war on the party, creating chaos that raises questions about the future of the GOP. Ross Douthat ’02 is a conservative op-ed columnist for The New York Times who writes frequently about politics and religion. On Monday, he will moderate a panel at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study with scholars discussing the importance of elite academic libraries such as the Schlesinger Library maintaining greater ideological diversity in their collections...