After 1989
The current crisis of democracy was not inevitable, but a result of hubris and shortsightedness among generations of statesmen.
Bending the Knee at Yale
Why is it that Maurie McInnis and her fellow elites crumbled so instantaneously?
The World That Woke 2.0 Seeks to Build
We can learn from the Civil Rights Movement, but we can also learn from its opposition.
How Taylor Sheridan's Fever Dreams Explain MAGA Foreign Policy (Neon Liberalism #88, with SecDef Rock)
The demented politics of "Lioness" have infected the Pentagon.
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Editor's Notes: The New Fugitive Slave Controversy Is Already Upon Us
The crisis is older than the second Trump term.
Editor's Notes: They Hate Us For Our Freedoms
The existence and idea of freedom and cosmopolitan diversity is an existential threat to authoritarians big and small.
Guardrails for Democracy: How Congress Can Reinforce Privacy Rights and Independent Oversight
Chapter 4 (pp. 18–25) from The Reconstruction Papers.
Elites Need Some Emotional Distance from Social Media
Twenty-plus years on, it’s time they started adapting to the realities of the era.
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Liberal Currents Live: J. K. Rowling and the Problem of the Extremely Online Elites
So much can be explained by the overcooking of these people's brains on X.
How the Court Built Trump's Imperial Presidency (Neon Liberalism #87, with Josh Chafetz)
Supreme Court rulings stretching back decades laid the groundwork for expanded executive power.