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The Best of 2023

America’s Legitimacy Crisis—2

America's Legitimacy Crisis—1

2023: A Year in Defiance of Political Reality

Ask Me Anything—December 2023

A Call for Questions—December 2023

Liberalism v. the Left

On the Circular Firing Squad in Alabama

Countdown to Trumpocalypse

Henry Kissinger’s Judgment

The Enigma of Javier Milei

Nikki Haley Cannot Save Us

The Age of Information Tidal Waves

What can a thoughtful right-wing intellectual reasonably hope for today?

Behind Roger Waters’ Wall

Answering the Right’s Charges Against the Left

The Doom Sellers

A Home for the Liberal Center

Dire Biden Straits

The MAGAfication of the GOP is Complete

Palestinian militancy guarantees Palestinian statelessness

Two Cheers for Justice

The Populist Right Goes Down to Defeat in Poland

When the Wheels Come Off

Thoughts on the Israeli Massacre

How to Think About the Republican Madness

The Insidious Lie That We Can’t Understand Each Other

The Week to Come

Stuck in a Moment We Can’t Get Out Of

The Agony of the Pro-Life Intellectual

The Republican Flight into Fantasy

The Romney Counterfactual

The Secret of Trump's Political Success

"I Know Things, Make Me Your Leader"

America’s Asymmetric Politics

Hey Ho, Joe’s Gotta Go

The Foolishness of Invoking the Fourteenth Amendment to Stop Trump

The GOP’s Mysterious Eight Percent

The Mind-Warping Milwaukee Debate

Our Moment of Precarity

How to Solve the Hunter Biden Problem

Ask Me Anything—August 2023

A Call for Questions—August 2023

The Enduring Mystery of the Trump Voter

Please Stop Cheering

Home News Bulletin

Ron DeSantis, Reactionary Tryhard

Our Fractured Polities

What Oppenheimer Knew

Why I’m So Worried About 2024

The Retreat to Principles

Summertime Words and Music, 2023

The Global Progress of Right-Wing Populism

What Ron DeSantis thinks he needs to do to win

On Reaction—and Overreaction

Audio Week in Review—June 29

Ask Me Anything—June 2023

What Do You Really Know?

A Call for Questions—June 2023

A Trump Pardon Won't Save Us

Trump/Kennedy '24?

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

The Libertarian Temptation

Happy First Anniversary to Us

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

Our Newly Fatalistic Right

The Yawning Youth Gender Gap

Of Course Trump Can Win in 2024

The Next Republican Presidency—2

Ask Me Anything—April 2023

It’s Gonna Be Biden

A Call for Questions—April 2023

The Next Republican Presidency—1

Succession’s Failed Bid for Greatness

The Coming Storm

Don’t Overstate the Dobbs Factor

Jason Isbell's Struggle for Self-Knowledge

The Singularly Appalling Republican Party

The Lessons of Michael Corleone

“The Trump Show” Returns

What Is the Republican Party?

All the Miserable Young Liberals

What Israel’s Political Turmoil Teaches Us About Democracy

Trump’s Path Back to the Presidency

The Freud Renaissance

The Wrong Way to Take Down Donald Trump

BONUS POST: Iraq War Historical Document

Choosing Sides in the Wokeness Wars

Welcome to “Above the Fray”

Welcome to “Looking Left”

Welcome to “Notes from the Middleground”

When Bad Isn’t Good Enough

Ron DeSantis Is Not a Fascist

Trump, DeSantis, and the Proper Scope of Liberalism

DeSantis is bad, but Trump is still worse

A Late February Grab Bag

What About Ron?

Down the Straussian Rabbit Hole

How To Be a Liberal Today

Nikki Haley’s Failure to Launch

Politics and Proportion

Ask Me Anything—Feb. '23

Trump Is Not a “Dove”

A Call for Questions—Feb 2023

America the Unserious

The Also Republicans

The Trump Gut Check

The Right’s Elusive Regulatory Populism

The Two Americas (on Religion)

AUDIO: The Red-Pill Pusher

The Red-Pill Pusher

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

Foreign Policy and the Right

AUDIO: Ask Me Anything—Jan. '23

Ask Me Anything—Jan. '23

AUDIO: The “Democracy Panic” of 2022 Was Fully Justified

The “Democracy Panic” of 2022 Was Fully Justified