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"The Golden Age of America begins right now"
Another face of National Greatness Conservatism
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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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December 2024

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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How I'll Be Covering Trump 2.0
Thoughts on the right way to write and teach about the incoming 47th president
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My Top Ten Songs of 2024
Most of them were actually released this year!
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Damon and Chris talk Biden's legacy (and other stuff too)!
A recording from Damon Linker and Chris Cillizza's live video
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A Conversation on Joe Biden's Legacy
I'll be talking to Chris Cillizza on Wednesday at 2PM Eastern on Substack Live
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Dialectical Contributions to Democratic Breakdown
Multiple news stories over the past week confirm the precariousness of our situation
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