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Ten Theses for Liberals on Sex and Gender
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The Singularly Appalling Republican Party
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MAGA's Downward Moral Spiral
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The Other Rally at the Garden
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No Silver Linings
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Never-Trump Smackdown
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"The Golden Age of America begins right now"
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To Know or Not to Know?
A new book leads readers on an illuminating journey of self-exploration
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Revisiting: What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Second Trump Administration
Where does energy lie in our polity and in our political system?
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The Movements of History
Does history move in repeating cycles? Or in a linear unfolding of progress? Or is history just flotsam and jetsam circulating at random? I have…
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Reverting to the American Mean
What if the policy assumptions and norms of the past several decades were merely a passing phase?
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Shaken and Stirred
A year-end grab-bag of thoughts on where we are and where we could be going
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What Was Conservatism?
In search of Edmund Burke and Joseph De Maistre in the American past and present
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