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How Will We Know We’ve Become an Autocracy?

Independence Day, 2025

One Step Closer to Constitutional Rupture

The Mamdani Model

Trump Bombs Iran, "TACO" Hardest Hit

The Ineducable GOP

Our Real-World Worst-Case Scenario

A Chilling Prediction by Leo Strauss

MAGA in Motion

A Party of Sloths

What I Learned Teaching “Trump 2.0”

The Story of American Political Ideas Since 1945—Part 2

The Story of American Political Ideas Since 1945—Part 1

The Evangelical Evolution

A Conversation About the Highest Values and the Best Things

Ryan Lizza talks to Damon Linker about “the thinkers who set the stage for Trump the all-powerful”

Substack Live with Ryan Lizza

"These Thinkers Set the Stage for Trump the All-Powerful"

Home News Bulletin

100 Days of Ressentiment

How Low Can Trump’s Polls Go?

America the Unexceptional

Law and Its Limits

Appetite for Destruction

An American Gulag in the Making

At the Mercy of a Feral President

Risks From a Wounded President

Why Did Donald Trump Shoot the Economy in the Thigh?

Scapegoats Beware

Are Protests a Viable Path to Blocking Trump?

Trump Redefines the Right’s Policy Priorities

The Universities Are the Enemy

What Is to Be Done?—2

Trump's Will to Power

Close Encounters with the Reactionary Right

Trump Is Turning America Into its Opposite and a Threat to the World

Trump Is the State

Mr. Hyde Murders Dr. Jekyll

Should the Democrats Play Dead?

Germany’s Deepening Dilemma

It’s the Fall That’s Gonna Kill You

Governing in the Dark

What Is to Be Done?

Endings and Beginnings

Three Observations from the Midst of the Maelstrom

The Trump Executive Orders as “Radical Constitutionalism”

Deliberately Degrading American Government

Life as a Vocation

The End of the Cordon Sanitaire

The Limits of Legitimate Presidential Defiance

Who Is Russell Vought? Probably the Most Important Person in Trump 2.0

"The Golden Age of America begins right now"

To Know or Not to Know?

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

The Movements of History

Reverting to the American Mean