David Kurlander

David Kurlander works as Special Assistant to Preet Bharara. He graduated from Harvard College in 2017 with a degree in History & Literature. He is an avid amateur archival historian of American political history and is excited to share some of his findings.

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‘We Have Looked in the Haystack Very Little’: The 1978 SETI Reckoning

Note: This is, quite sadly, my final Time Machine article! I am departing from CAFE to work on a history book (!), and leave with the utmost love and respect for this amazing team. Thank you, readers, for all of your brilliant feedback, questions, and support over the last four years! And for a final […]

‘A Frighteningly Familiar Ring’: Congress Debates American Intervention in the 1979 Yemenite War

‘A Threat to the Future of the Country’: Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s Surprising 1996 Fight for Undocumented Immigrants

‘Business Matters Abroad’: Bert Lance’s Qatar Call to the White House

‘A Major Watergate for All of New Testament Christianity’: Congress’s 1980s Attempts to Hold Televangelists Accountable

‘They Want a Total Ban’: The Senate Debate Over the 1983 Human Life Amendment

‘Just Classic Wes’: Oregon Representative Wes Cooley’s Santos-Like 1996 Fall

‘Silencing Henry Liu’: A 1984 Political Assassination on American Soil

‘A Metaphor for Our Persistent Cultural Contradictions’: The Media Reaction to Steve Jobs’s 1985 Ouster

‘Dominoes to Dynamos’: Clinton and Jiang at the First APEC Summit

‘A Ludicrous Rationale’: The 1990s Legislative Effort to Ban Guns for Domestic Abusers

‘A Debate About Life and Death’: A 1993 Assault Weapons Hearing and the Endless Cycle of Gun Violence

‘They Can’t Have Another Media Circus’: David Hale, Whitewater, and the Politicization of Loans