In Search of an FDR Consensus: The Future of an American Foreign and Defense Policy
Chapter 18 (pp. 140–153) from The Reconstruction Papers.
Headwaters: September 7–13, 2026
Looking at what’s just behind us in preparation for the week ahead.
The Liberal Economy: The Car Without an Engine Goes to the Mechanic
Chapter 8 (pp. 54–61) from The Reconstruction Papers.
The Midterms Will Be a Referendum on MAGA (Neon Liberalism #90, with Greg Sargent)
How elites got hoodwinked by the vibe shift.
It's Not Just the Supreme Court That's Broken (Out of the Jaws #11, with Charles Star)
The Texas drag ban and more.
After September
The grief lingers, and the mistakes cannot be overturned, and the dead do not return from their graves.
Donald Trump Wants to Bury America With Him
His speech at the GOP's midterm convention came off like a Jim Jones sermon.
Liberal Currents Live: Can the Final Girl Slay the Last Man?
Liberal democracy's fight to survive the fascist night.
The Mass Party of the Future
Liberalism's problem isn't structural. Liberalism's problem is that we got out-hustled.
Trump, Israel, the Iran War, and the Death of the Two-State Solution (Half the Answer #102, with Y. L. Al-Sheikh)
What is the current state of affairs in Israel, Palestine, and the surrounding nations?
The End of History and the Final Girl
Anton Jäger’s "Hyperpolitics" is, at its best, late marginalia for "The End of History and the Last Man." At its worst, Jäger, like Fukuyama, is a prisoner of his political pieties.
Editor's Notes: You, Too, Can Forget 9/11
On a solemn occasion, Republicans’ message to America’s youth is a promise about their future.