The Left Needs to Get Serious About World Order
The progressive restrainers’ proposal is fundamentally incoherent.
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The Left Needs to Get Serious About World Order
The progressive restrainers’ proposal is fundamentally incoherent.
You Can't Build a Better Politics on Bad History
Sarah Longwell's "How to Eat an Elephant" offers useful advice for Democratic politics. Yet it is also based on a false history of the GOP.
The Historical Sensibility of "Mad Men"
As "Mad Men" depicts, history reshapes people’s lives, perspectives, and interactions, often without them fully realizing that things have changed.
Feeble Criticism of War With Iran Echoes the Lead-Up to War With Iraq
We need to take a firm stand against this reckless and pointless war, not fixate on whether or not it was done the "right way."
The Culture War Eats Foreign Policy (Neon Liberalism #56, with Joe Stieb)
Join Samantha and guest Joe Stieb, assistant professor at UNC Chapel Hill, as they talk about Donald Trump's
Sovereignty for Me, None for Thee
Donald Trump's 2025 National Security Strategy reveals a radical blood-and-soil conception of national strategy based on maintaining white patriarchal Christian domination at home and abroad.
The Warmonger Rebrand
Rebranding the Department of Defense as the "Department of War" is one more proof of Trump II's bellicose intentions.
Neon Liberalism #39: An Unsettled Age
The future of the world order is more uncertain than it has been since the fall of the Soviet Union—
How the Restraint Movement Lost Its Way
The restraint movement's attachment to Trump has compromised its ability to offer a credible alternative to American foreign policy orthodoxy.
Moyn's Muddle on Ukraine
Moyn makes both historical and moral errors in his analysis, and at times he uncritically adopts Putin’s perspective.