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AUDIO: Hope and Apprehension

Hope and Apprehension

AUDIO: Neither Beasts Nor Gods

Neither Beasts Nor Gods

AUDIO: What Everybody Knows

What Everybody Knows

AUDIO: Politics and Anger

Politics and Anger

AUDIO: The DeSantis Test

The DeSantis Test

AUDIO: Opening Our Eyes to the Right’s Rising Radicalism

Opening Our Eyes to the Right’s Rising Radicalism

AUDIO: Judgment Is All We Have

Judgment Is All We Have

AUDIO: Germany Foils a Far-Right Coup Plot

Germany Foils a Far-Right Coup Plot

AUDIO: All About That Republican Base

All About That Republican Base

AUDIO: The Week America’s Collective Bad Trip Resumed

The Week America’s Collective Bad Trip Resumed

AUDIO: Ask Me Anything—Dec. '22

Ask Me Anything—Dec. '22

AUDIO: What Does Peter Thiel Want?

What Does Peter Thiel Want?

AUDIO: Elon Musk’s New Toy

Elon Musk’s New Toy

AUDIO: Is America Broken?

Is America Broken?

AUDIO: The Endless Skirmish Between Liberalism and Religion

The Endless Skirmish Between Liberalism and Religion

AUDIO: What Comes Next for the Radical Right?

What Comes Next for the Radical Right?

AUDIO: Are We Really Stuck with Trump?

Are We Really Stuck with Trump?

AUDIO: A Lesson in American Dividedness

A Lesson in American Dividedness

AUDIO: Midterm Postmortem

Midterm Postmortem

AUDIO-ONLY POST: The Red Wave That Wasn't

AUDIO: The Looming Midterms—2

The Looming Midterms—2

AUDIO: The Looming Midterms—1

The Looming Midterms—1

AUDIO: Lamentable Lessons of the Pelosi Attack

Lamentable Lessons of the Pelosi Attack

Convalescence Continues

AUDIO: Origins of the Cultural Revolution

Origins of the Cultural Revolution

AUDIO: The Right’s Tyrannical Temptation

The Right’s Tyrannical Temptation

AUDIO: Michael Anton Agonistes—2

Michael Anton Agonistes—2

It's Pledge Week!

Michael Anton Agonistes—1

The Ever-More Incoherent GOP

Irwin Linker (1939-2022)

A Brief Hiatus

Philosophy and the Far Right—3

Philosophy and the Far Right—2

What just happened in Italy?

Trump's Next Power Play

Philosophy and the Far Right—1

Ron DeSantis, King of the Jerks

Praying for the Apocalypse

What “Wokeness” Is—and Isn’t

The Delusion Factor

A Giving of Intellectual Accounts

Electoral Rules for a Low-Trust Era

To Purify the Polity

Putting Right-Wing Populism on the Couch

A Republican Wave—or a Ripple?

What’s To Be Done About Trump?—2

What's To Be Done About Trump?—1

The Trumpian Trash Factor

On Being a Conservative Liberal

Liz Cheney’s Political Epitaph

Though the Heavens Fall

Ask Me Anything—August '22

America is Already Failing the Trump Test

Viktor Orbán’s Message for Social Conservatives

Election Day Postmortem—August 2, 2022

The Dangerous Politics of Angry Men

A Final Round with Rod Dreher

Viktor Orbán, Rod Dreher, and Me

Thinking About Fascism—Part 2

Thinking About Fascism—Part 1

What the Hell Is Going On at the Secret Service?

Why Not the Left?

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Donald Trump?

Conservatism and Skepticism—Part 2

Dear Democrats, Stop Boosting Trumpist Candidates!

Conservatism and Skepticism—Part 1

Bad, Worse, and Worst of All

When Did the GOP Radicalize?—Part 2

When Did the GOP Radicalize?—Part 1

After Roe: The Pious Daydreams of the Integralist Conservatives

After Roe: A Letter to My Teenage Daughter About the Dobbs Decision

After Roe: The Reversals to Come

What Liberals Can Learn from Conservatives About Moral Pluralism

The Right's Road to Nowhere on Climate

Lessons in Defending Liberalism

6 Theses on the Imminent End of Roe

Talkin' Education Polarization Blues

"The American Exception" Revisited

The American Exception

Steve Bannon and the Politics of Bullshit

How Glenn Greenwald lost his way

How the Religious Right Lost While Winning

The Real Reason the Right Loves Guns

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