A collection of 44 posts
Joe Lonsdale wants public hangings restored. History shows they failed—Western societies became safer after abandoning brutal spectacle justice.
Love means never having to say you’re sorry.
The unpopular secretary of defence may not survive his latest scandal.
The bones of our conspiracies haven’t changed, though their details are different.
Political discourse during our polarised moment can be vicious and exhausting, but it is still preferable to the alternative.
The real hoax is the one being peddled by the Trump administration right now.
Zohran Mamdani’s father Mahmood is a postnationalist who advocates the dissolution of all nation states, which he views as intrinsically violent and unjust.
Jefferson Morley’s dogged pursuit of a CIA connection in Miami is all smoke and no fire.
This won’t be Great Depression 2.0. But this trade war will cost America and the world many innovations and great prosperity.
No centrist who understands the current moment has ever truly laid out their case to the Democratic Party base in the context of a serious political campaign. It’s time to change that.
What I learned about Trump’s landslide victory from one night in New York City.
Students should study extensively the presidential rhetoric of earlier times, because it often demonstrates civility far better than the rhetoric of the present.
The Tenet media scandal and the convergence of right-wing American punditry and Russian propaganda.
In two new books, a journalist and an academic offer competing explanations for the extremist ideological tendencies within left-wing cultural, academic, activist, and political institutions.
America First and the looming spectre of an illiberal international.