Revenge of the Silent Male Voter What I learned about Trump’s landslide victory from one night in New York City. Claire Lehmann 6 Nov 2024 · 4 min read
Kamala Harris’s Very Big Tent Can Kamala Harris be the stateswoman that the United States and the free world so urgently need? Jeffrey Herf 26 Aug 2024 · 10 min read
Populists Before Trump John Ganz’s lively new book provides a valuable account of the intellectual origins of Trumpism. Leon Hadar 20 Aug 2024 · 9 min read
American Assassinations Four deaths, two critical injuries, and three hairbreadth escapes. Not the best odds in a field of 46 presidents, so when one dodges a bullet, we’ve all been lucky. Thomas Doherty 21 Jul 2024 · 10 min read
It’s the Narrative, Stupid! Every time there is a shooting, everybody turns to their narrative. We all want our stories to be vindicated, and we are perplexed if the expected pattern does not emerge. Fred Litwin 18 Jul 2024 · 7 min read
Donald Trump and the Perils of Myth-Making In the wake of the shooting, we should neither demonise nor sanctify Trump, but assess him by normal political standards. Jason Garshfield 17 Jul 2024 · 7 min read
A Wretched Situation The failure of the Secret Service to provide adequate protection to a standard-bearer for one of the major parties is the latest example of American breakdown. Brian Stewart 16 Jul 2024 · 6 min read
Courage and Cowardice in Pennsylvania In trying to assassinate Donald Trump, Thomas Matthew Crooks inadvertently provided Trump with an opportunity to display the very qualities that have made him a cult icon. Claire Lehmann 15 Jul 2024 · 7 min read
Nationalist Self-Hatred The culture war alone cannot explain the civic rot on the populist Right. Matt Johnson 12 Mar 2024 · 18 min read
Stop Dunking on Trump Supporters No one is beyond reach—unless everyone around them refuses to reach out. Julian Adorney 7 Feb 2024 · 9 min read
Podcast #231: Leaving MAGA Former Trump activist Rich Logis explains why he renounced his former MAGA beliefs—and how he’s helping others exit the movement. Quillette 28 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
A Royal Grift In political terms, the purchasers of Trump’s NFTs are not citizens but subjects. Julia Friedman / David Hawkes 20 May 2023 · 8 min read
Should the GOP Continue to Embrace Populism? Two Responses Quillette readers Joe Benning and Charles N.W. Keckler give their responses. Quillette 21 Sep 2022 · 8 min read
Return of the Strong Gods: Understanding the New Right A great many Americans held their noses to vote for Trump, whom they saw as the lesser evil. Jordan Alexander Hill 3 Jan 2021 · 20 min read
Podcast #121: The Inconvenient Truth About Donald Trump’s Non-White Supporters A conversation with Jamil Jivani. Quillette 6 Nov 2020 · 1 min read
