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2023: A Year in Defiance of Political Reality
A Call for Questions—December 2023
On the Circular Firing Squad in Alabama
The Age of Information Tidal Waves
What can a thoughtful right-wing intellectual reasonably hope for today?
Answering the Right’s Charges Against the Left
The MAGAfication of the GOP is Complete
Palestinian militancy guarantees Palestinian statelessness
The Populist Right Goes Down to Defeat in Poland
Thoughts on the Israeli Massacre
How to Think About the Republican Madness
The Insidious Lie That We Can’t Understand Each Other
Stuck in a Moment We Can’t Get Out Of
The Agony of the Pro-Life Intellectual
The Republican Flight into Fantasy
The Secret of Trump's Political Success
"I Know Things, Make Me Your Leader"
The Foolishness of Invoking the Fourteenth Amendment to Stop Trump
The GOP’s Mysterious Eight Percent
The Mind-Warping Milwaukee Debate
How to Solve the Hunter Biden Problem
A Call for Questions—August 2023
The Enduring Mystery of the Trump Voter
Ron DeSantis, Reactionary Tryhard
Summertime Words and Music, 2023
The Global Progress of Right-Wing Populism
What Ron DeSantis thinks he needs to do to win
A Call for Questions—June 2023
The Left’s Muddled and Magical Thinking
Blocking Trump’s Path Back to Power
Trump, DeSantis, and the Also Republicans, Revisited
America Doesn't Need Regime Change
Waging Culture War by Political Means
What Really Keeps Me Up at Night
The Rise of the Anti-Ideological Right—2
The Rise of the Anti-Ideological Right—1
Ten Theses for Liberals on Sex and Gender
Too Big to Fail: The Taylor Swift Experience
The World-Class Demagogue Returns
Stop Blaming the Media, Start Blaming the People
Of Course Trump Can Win in 2024
The Next Republican Presidency—2
A Call for Questions—April 2023
The Next Republican Presidency—1
Succession’s Failed Bid for Greatness
Don’t Overstate the Dobbs Factor
Jason Isbell's Struggle for Self-Knowledge
The Singularly Appalling Republican Party
The Lessons of Michael Corleone
All the Miserable Young Liberals
What Israel’s Political Turmoil Teaches Us About Democracy
Trump’s Path Back to the Presidency
The Wrong Way to Take Down Donald Trump
BONUS POST: Iraq War Historical Document
Choosing Sides in the Wokeness Wars
Welcome to “Notes from the Middleground”
Trump, DeSantis, and the Proper Scope of Liberalism
DeSantis is bad, but Trump is still worse
Down the Straussian Rabbit Hole
Nikki Haley’s Failure to Launch
The Right’s Elusive Regulatory Populism
The Two Americas (on Religion)
AUDIO: The Culture War Over Abortion Will Never End
The Culture War Over Abortion Will Never End
AUDIO: Rethinking the Centerless Society
Rethinking the Centerless Society
AUDIO: The Right’s Economic Populism Is Stillborn
The Right’s Economic Populism Is Stillborn
AUDIO: The Folly of the Anti-Reactionary Progressives
The Folly of the Anti-Reactionary Progressives
AUDIO: Foreign Policy and the Right
AUDIO: Ask Me Anything—Jan. '23