The Women of January 6th
A new book details the conspiratorial thinking and dark histories of two Capitol rioters.
Claire Lehmann
· 7 min read
American Politics
A collection of 46 posts
A Story Spiked
Bari Weiss’s eleventh-hour cancellation of a 60 Minutes exposé on migrants imprisoned in El Salvador raises troubling questions about editorial independence at CBS News.
Cathy Young
· 18 min read
Public Hangings and the Politics of Virtue
Joe Lonsdale wants public hangings restored. History shows they failed—Western societies became safer after abandoning brutal spectacle justice.
Claire Lehmann
· 9 min read
All the Nuzzi That’s Fit to Print
Love means never having to say you’re sorry.
Valerie Pavilonis
· 10 min read
The Pete Hegseth Debacle
The unpopular secretary of defence may not survive his latest scandal.
Dilan Esper
· 8 min read
The New Medievals
The bones of our conspiracies haven’t changed, though their details are different.
Claire Lehmann
· 7 min read
America’s Rancorous Public Square
Political discourse during our polarised moment can be vicious and exhausting, but it is still preferable to the alternative.
Milton Ezrati
· 8 min read
Russiagate Redux
The real hoax is the one being peddled by the Trump administration right now.
Cathy Young
· 23 min read
Mahmood Mamdani Wants to Dismantle America
Zohran Mamdani’s father Mahmood is a postnationalist who advocates the dissolution of all nation states, which he views as intrinsically violent and unjust.
John Aziz
· 7 min read
Another JFK Assassination Nothingburger
Jefferson Morley’s dogged pursuit of a CIA connection in Miami is all smoke and no fire.
Fred Litwin
· 16 min read
The Liberation Tariffs: Worse Than an Oil Embargo?
This won’t be Great Depression 2.0. But this trade war will cost America and the world many innovations and great prosperity.
Garett Jones
· 6 min read
The Centre Must Rise
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.
Jack Despain Zhou
· 8 min read
Revenge of the Silent Male Voter
What I learned about Trump’s landslide victory from one night in New York City.
Claire Lehmann
· 4 min read
Searching for Presidential Rhetoric
Students should study extensively the presidential rhetoric of earlier times, because it often demonstrates civility far better than the rhetoric of the present.
Robert C. Thornett
· 13 min read
Kremlin Cash
The Tenet media scandal and the convergence of right-wing American punditry and Russian propaganda.
Cathy Young
· 9 min read