The Western Hemisphere After Trump
The aim of neighborly and mutual integration with the Western Hemisphere, including free trade and the free movement of people, is a noble one.
The Western Hemisphere After Trump
The aim of neighborly and mutual integration with the Western Hemisphere, including free trade and the free movement of people, is a noble one.
Midterm Madness: Political Ads from Michigan to Texas (Half the Answer #98, with Jonathan M. Katz)
Floating in a hideous soup of extremism, slander, bad art, and dirty dealings.
The School Shooter Civilization
"Civilizationist" thinking, once confined to the radical fringe and the manifestos of mass killers, has moved to the center of American foreign policy.
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Editor's Notes: Never Underestimate the Human Capacity for Earnest Cruelty
Americans ought to be more familiar with the sorts of atrocities committed both by regimes and by rioting publics.
Objections Considered: Objection I.—Such Cruelties Are Incredible
To deny that cruelty is the spontaneous and uniform product of arbitrary power is to set at nought the combined experience of the human race.
The Minnesota Star Tribune Publishes an Article on The Reconstruction Papers
David M. Perry writes about looking ahead to what 2029 trifecta could accomplish.
Fascists Really Believe It
Millions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory.
Trump’s Desecration of Big Bend Reminds Us Nothing Is Sacred in His America
Yet another example of how his nationalism prioritizes exclusion over veneration of what makes that nation great.
Podcast
Was Cultural Marxism Responsible for the Beatles? (Half the Answer #97, with A. J. A. Woods)
Why does the right keep talking about a handful of critical theorists from the 1960s?
Red in Tooth and Claw (Neon Liberalism #85)
The pressure of international competition has driven both mindless militarism and genuine modernization.
Free Trade and Free People (Out of the Jaws #9, with Joshua Eakle)
Grounding liberalism in openness and dynamism.