A collection of 50 posts
The Trump/Musk administration’s approach to cutting costs makes good political sense in the short-run. But from a longer-run governing perspective, it is a recipe for disaster.
Forced to choose between the values upheld by the National Endowment for Democracy and fealty to Donald Trump, Republicans have opted for the latter.
Consigned to the political wilderness, progressives and left-liberals could do a lot worse than shed their disdain for patriotism.
George R.R. Martin, the Strauss-Howe theory of history, and the failure of the Baby Boomers.
Exceptionalism is a double-edged sword, which cuts those blind to America’s flaws and those blind to its virtues.
Civil-rights law made the DEI world; civil-rights reform can unmake it.
If they manage to stay on REDnote long enough, former TikTokers will surely begin to notice that all is not as it seems in modern China.
Perhaps the most damaging aspect of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s racial-equity regime has been the perception of racial unfairness it created in one of America’s most racially diverse cities.
Misleading and irresponsible journalism is being used to launder the reputation of RFK Jr.
As with Napoleon Bonaparte, one cannot confidently state that if Trump had never been born, someone like him would have done what he did.
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.
The people may have spoken, but the options with which they were presented were not befitting of a serious country.
If the United States abandons Europe, Beijing will be more emboldened than ever.
The current system is not only economically counterproductive but incentivises people to become illegal immigrants.
John Ganz’s lively new book provides a valuable account of the intellectual origins of Trumpism.