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July 2025

Still Stuck in Gaza
Checking in on the world's most intractable problem and deepest moral sinkhole
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Damon Linker
27
Watching Breaking Bad with my Zoomer Daughter
The show’s greatness doesn’t speak to women the same way it speaks to men—and that demonstrates its limits as art
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Damon Linker
27
The Right’s Napoleonic Strategy on Culture
What Trump and his ideological allies are really after
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Damon Linker
49
Democracy’s Digital Panopticon
What the very public humiliation of Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot tells us about ourselves
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Damon Linker
31
The Trump-Inspired Misanthropic Temptation
And how to resist it—with a little help from musician Nick Cave
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Damon Linker
14
Confessions of an AI Skeptic
The artificial-intelligence revolution is coming. Should we welcome or dread it?
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Damon Linker
13
The Philosophical Roots of Illiberal Movements
A preview of what I’m going to say about immigration at an important conference taking place next month in Washington, D.C.
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Damon Linker
24
How Will We Know We’ve Become an Autocracy?
It's not as simple as waiting for a Big Moment at which Trump defies the Supreme Court or breaks the law
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Damon Linker
27
Independence Day, 2025
Patriotic words and music from my battered and shattered American heart
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Damon Linker
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June 2025

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