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The Most Dangerous Man in America (to Jews)
I’m talking, of course, about Tucker Carlson (or maybe Nick Fuentes)
23 hrs ago • 
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How a Mind Learns to Look at Itself
What Jonathan Lear taught me about myself
Oct 27 • 
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Judgment Day for Donald Trump
At least for the third week of October 2025
Oct 24 • 
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Ten Theses for Liberals on Sex and Gender
May 18, 2023 • Damon Linker
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Decline Is a Choice America Keeps Making
Aug 29 • Damon Linker
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The Singularly Appalling Republican Party
Apr 12, 2023 • Damon Linker
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MAGA's Downward Moral Spiral
Nov 18, 2024 • Damon Linker
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The Other Rally at the Garden
Oct 28, 2024 • Damon Linker
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No Silver Linings
Nov 14, 2024 • Damon Linker
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When Women Rule the Workplace
Helen Andrews thinks she has found the source of wokeness in distinctively female patterns of behavior
Oct 20 • 
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The Surest Path to Dictatorship
A quick plug for a short primer about the Insurrection Act
Oct 18 • 
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Our Unmastered Pleasures and Addictions
It can be difficult to resist the many temptations that surround us
Oct 17 • 
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Trump’s Irregular Rule
The system is buckling as it attempts a response to the president’s transparent bullshit
Oct 13 • 
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Judgment Is All We Have
What the polarized reaction to the “Twitter Files” tells us about the nature of politics
Published on Notes from the Middleground • Oct 10
A universe can open up from an instant, if you’ll just look at it and spend time with it
R.I.P. Jonathan Lear, 1948-2025
Published on Eminent Americans • Oct 9
Liberalism’s Existential Crisis
Lots of smart people were thinking deeply last week about how the center left can fight its way back to power. I provide a rundown of their arguments
Oct 6 • 
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