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May 2025

MAGA in Motion
What we can learn simply by describing what we see from the second Trump administration
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Damon Linker
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A Party of Sloths
The Democrats are in serious trouble. What will it take to rouse them from their passivity?
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Damon Linker
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What I Learned Teaching “Trump 2.0”
It wasn’t anything uplifting, I’ll tell you that
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Damon Linker
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The Story of American Political Ideas Since 1945—Part 2
Technocratic-managerial neoliberalism and its discontents
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Damon Linker
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The Story of American Political Ideas Since 1945—Part 1
What I taught my Penn students this past semester
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Damon Linker
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The Evangelical Evolution
What a pair of administration policies tell us about the transformation of the religious right in the Trump era
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Damon Linker
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A Conversation About the Highest Values and the Best Things
Thoughts inspired by listening to a stimulating podcast conversation
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Damon Linker
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Ryan Lizza talks to Damon Linker about “the thinkers who set the stage for Trump the all-powerful”
A recording from Damon Linker and Ryan Lizza's live video
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Damon Linker
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Ryan Lizza
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1:12:30
Substack Live with Ryan Lizza
Coming today (Monday) at 2pm!
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Damon Linker
"These Thinkers Set the Stage for Trump the All-Powerful"
That's the title of my latest guest essay in the New York Times
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Damon Linker
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