Sitemap - 2024 - Notes from the Middleground

Shaken and Stirred

What Was Conservatism?

How I'll Be Covering Trump 2.0

My Top Ten Songs of 2024

Damon and Chris talk Biden's legacy (and other stuff too)!

A Conversation on Joe Biden's Legacy

Dialectical Contributions to Democratic Breakdown

If Democrats Were Smart…

A Republican Party Reborn

Election 2024 Postmortem

The Bestial Politics of Masculine Self-Assertion

MAGA's Downward Moral Spiral

No Silver Linings

What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Second Trump Administration

The Enormity of Donald Trump’s Win

The Dawn of the Trump Era

While We Await Results

The Domestic Front of the 2024 Election

The Other Rally at the Garden

"Don’t Vote For the Fascist"

Donald Trump Goes Back to the Future

The Truly Alarming Mr. Trump

Ask Me Anything—October 2024, Part 2

Ask Me Anything—October 2024, Part 1

A Call for Questions—October 2024

Kamala’s Conservative Pitch

I Have Seen the Republican Future—and It’s Less Terrible Than Trump

Calling all Political Obsessives!

The Continually Rising Tide of the Populist Right in Europe

Debate-Watch-Party Announcement

The Dying Art of Disagreement

The Leftovers

Something Much Darker

America's Civic Pyromaniacs

Will It Matter That Harris Won the Philadelphia Debate?

The Anti-Liberal Right Builds a Usable Past

The Politics of Unreality

Losing My Religion

Never-Trump Smackdown

Well Done, Dems

We’re All Populists Now

The Generic Democrat Is Winning

Conservatism in Theory and Practice

The Politics of "Vibes"

When the Weirdos Take Over

Kamala Harris Rising

The Part of "Project 2025" We're Sure to See

Trump’s Mirage of Moderation on Abortion

Liberalism's Embattled Present (and Possibly Hopeful Future)

Joe Had to Go

The Funhouse Fascist

The Convert

The Real Changing of the Guard

The Man in the Arena

President Unbound

Over and Out

Everything Is Not Fine

Making Sense of the Populist Present—2

Making Sense of the Populist Present—1

Every Democrat in America Should be Livid

Debate-Watch-Party Announcement

When a Cultural Revolution Reverses

This is the Most Important Post Ever!

When There Are No Adults in the Room

On Living Through the End of Something

Coming to Terms with a Right-Populist Reality

How to Think About Politics

The Tangled Political Mess of Trump’s Criminal Conviction

The Tedious Media Blame Game

Liberalism As a Way of Life

Ask Me Anything—May 2024

A Call for Questions—May 2024

A Resurgence of the American Berserk

Biden’s Continuing Struggles

Humanizing the Technocracy

The Trump Exception

Making Sense of Contemporary Political Theory

Lament for the Declining Art of Editing

Trumpism's Prophet

America in the Middleground

Don't Blame Trump for Pro-Life Struggles

Why is Biden Struggling? Because America is Broken

The Anti-Israel Left and the Righteous Swastika

My Syllabus

The Origins and Fate of the Neoliberal Order

Seven More Months of ... This?

Media Criticism Isn't Politics

Neoconservatism’s Populist Mistake

The Repeal of Reaganism

Exploring the Sources of Biden’s Struggles

Gut-Check Time on Biden v. Trump

The State of the Union as a Raucous Partisan Rally

Burn the GOP to the Ground

The Supreme Court Makes the (Unanimous) Right Call

What Aimee Mann's Music Means to Me

For the Love of Justice

What Exactly Does Nikki Haley Think She’s Doing?

The Judiciously Skeptical Mind

Donald Trump and the "Vision Thing"

When Liberalism Was at Its Best—3

What the Hell is Wrong with the Democrats?

Republican Dreams of Political Domination

When Liberalism Was at Its Best—2

The Right’s New Abnormal Normal

When Liberalism Was at Its Best—1

The Unfolding of the Inevitable—2

The Unfolding of the Inevitable—1

Why Is Biden Likely to Lose?

Nikki Haley Cannot Save Us, Revisited

And We're Off ...

Quick Takes: The State of the Race

Our Gramscian Moment

The Consequences of Dismissing Consequences

What Awaits Us in 2024