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Welcome to “Notes from the Middleground”
It’s a beautiful day for a relaunch
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Lament for the Declining Art of Editing
Thoughts inspired by Taylor Swift’s 31-song notebook dump
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Trumpism's Prophet
On Samuel Francis’ diabolical vision
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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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Burn the GOP to the Ground
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The Republican Flight into Fantasy
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What can a thoughtful right-wing intellectual reasonably hope for today?
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When Liberalism Was at Its Best—1
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America in the Middleground
Biden strives to keep the U.S. engaged in an increasingly chaotic world without hastening its slide into greater disorder
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Don't Blame Trump for Pro-Life Struggles
Maybe people are becoming more pro-choice because they don’t like living in a country where pro-lifers get their way
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Why is Biden Struggling? Because America is Broken
My latest in the New York Times
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The Anti-Israel Left and the Righteous Swastika
Scattered, unsettled thoughts on the ongoing war in Gaza—and how Israel's critics are responding to it
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My Syllabus
For my course at Penn in Contemporary Political Theory
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The Origins and Fate of the Neoliberal Order
How I present contemporary political theory to my students
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Seven More Months of ... This?
A rant about three things that really irritated me this week
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Notes from the Middleground
Notes from the Middleground
Analysis and criticism of the antiliberal right, social-justice progressivism, and cultural topics
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