Archive - Notes from the Middleground

What’s at Stake in the Omar Case

Trump’s Attack on Omar is an Attack on America

Published on Unpopular Front • 4 hrs ago

American Barbarism

Further thoughts on thumos and the experience of living in a country with a government attempting to encourage more of it

Oct 12 • Damon Linker

Marco Rubio Rides to the Rescue

Of Western civilization

Oct 9 • Damon Linker

Gazing Into the Cornell Mirror

An alleged gang rape on an upstate New York campus has left me distraught—and about far more than what may have happened to one young woman

Oct 5 • Damon Linker

The Best TV Shows of the 21st Century (So Far)

I give my own version of the recent New York Times list

Oct 2 • Damon Linker

September 2026

America’s Conservative Core

This time through my course on “Conservatism in Theory and Practice,” I’m seeing the pervasiveness of conservative assumptions, and the novelty of…

Sep 28 • Damon Linker

Dems Are Poised to Kick the Crap Out of Republicans in November

But what will it mean for the country’s political future?

Sep 25 • Damon Linker

What it means to be an 'anti-Republican', with Damon Linker

A recording from Damon Linker and Chris Cillizza's live video

Sep 22 • Damon Linker and Chris Cillizza

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The Social Psychology of Apocalypse

Why are so many of us convinced we’re standing on the precipice of extinction?

Sep 21 • Damon Linker

The Politics of Apocalypse

In The New York Times Book Review, I write about “End Times Fascism” by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

Sep 16 • Damon Linker

Does Liberal Democracy Have a Future?

A smart and stimulating podcast conversation between Ezra Klein and Francis Fukuyama prompts some deep thinking

Sep 14 • Damon Linker

September 11 After a Quarter Century—2

In a host of surprising ways, we live in a world remade by the men who hijacked the planes 25 years in the past

Sep 11 • Damon Linker

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