A collection of 35 posts
No centrist who understands the current moment has ever truly laid out their case to the Democratic Party base in the context of a serious political campaign. It’s time to change that.
What I learned about Trump’s landslide victory from one night in New York City.
Students should study extensively the presidential rhetoric of earlier times, because it often demonstrates civility far better than the rhetoric of the present.
The Tenet media scandal and the convergence of right-wing American punditry and Russian propaganda.
In two new books, a journalist and an academic offer competing explanations for the extremist ideological tendencies within left-wing cultural, academic, activist, and political institutions.
America First and the looming spectre of an illiberal international.
Our increasing desire to isolate ourselves from supporters of the opposite party can have dire consequences.
A commitment to civility is first and foremost about not becoming what we oppose.
The SCOTUS decision on affirmative action has ended a hypocritical and incoherent policy.
Progressive thinking on urban violence is so unrealistic it is dystopian.
Debt and migration spirals have turned asylum applications into a charade for exploitation.
America’s narrowing two-party system is poisoning the greatest democracy in the world.
The ideas that unite the hard Left and the populist Right against the West itself are the same ones that make them both so excited about the culture wars.
Williams, W. A. (1962). The Tragedy of American Diplomacy. New York: Dell Pub. Co. When the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) pinned Putin’s recent invasion of Ukraine on NATO’s “imperialist expansionism,” many policymakers and journalists on both sides of the political spectrum lambasted the organization for its half-hearted
Conservative anti-interventionists buy into an authoritarian narrative that ignores the clear choices made by the people of Ukraine.