Socialism in No Country
In her illuminating essay “The Revolutionary Tradition and its Lost Treasure”—itself a lost treasure, as so few people who consider themselves within the Western revolutionary tradition ever read or...
View ArticleFans Are Ruining Game of Thrones—And Everything Else
It was bound to end this way. Given its colossal success, cultural saturation, and the impossible expectations that come from being “event television,” the Game of Thrones finale was always going to be...
View ArticleWhy Milkshaking Works
The biggest topic in British political circles on Monday wasn’t the country’s impending departure from the European Union. It was milkshakes—or, rather, one milkshake in particular that was lobbed by a...
View ArticleCorporate America Is Terrified of the Green New Deal
There is a “major shift” afoot in corporate America on climate change, according to Axios. On Monday, energy reporter Amy Harder reported that major companies “across virtually all sectors of the...
View ArticleIs Trump DOA in the Rust Belt?
If you’re the betting sort, maybe bet on the 2020 election being decided in the Rust Belt. It was there, in 2016, when the Democrats’ fabled “blue wall”—Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania—crumbled,...
View ArticleRahm Emanuel’s Deficit of Self-Awareness
Rahm Emanuel has identified an alarming problem in American politics. He may as well have found it by staring into a mirror.The explanation for President Donald Trump’s dismaying rise, he argues in The...
View ArticleImpeachment Is Coming
Over the weekend, Justin Amash, a young, libertarian-leaning, Michigan Republican who represents Grand Rapids and its suburbs, did what Democratic leaders have declined to do for the past two years: He...
View ArticleA Presidency That Will Live in Infamy
The House Judiciary Committee convened on Tuesday without its star witness. Don McGahn, the former White House counsel and a key witness in the Mueller report, refused to appear after President Trump...
View ArticleWar With Iran Would Benefit the Emirates, Not the U.S.
Saudi Arabia and its new Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman enjoyed a short time in the Washington sun. Bin Salman was introduced through Thomas Friedman articles and 60 Minutes specials as a visionary...
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Gregor Von Rezzori’s Vast Postwar Masterpiece
If you put a gun to my head and asked me to describe Gregor von Rezzori’s Abel and Cain in three sentences, this is what I would answer: Murder. Murder. Murder. First-, second-, and third-degree:...
View ArticleCory Booker Was Once a Foot Soldier for Betsy DeVos
Cory Booker had expected 10,000 people to turn out for the rally in downtown Newark that launched his presidential campaign, but on April 13, against a huge American flag draped across a building high...
View ArticleDear Millennial-Haters: Let’s Talk
The center-right commentators of this world are few, but they have made a big fuss about hating this country’s youth. The young people, they say, see “privilege” wherever there is individual merit....
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Will the Radical Right Break the EU?
On June 24, 2016, at the headquarters of the National Front in Nanterre, France, Marine Le Pen hosted an impromptu press conference to celebrate the result of Britain’s referendum on EU membership....
View ArticleWhat It’s Like to Live Under an Abortion Ban
The passage of last week’s highly restrictive bill banning almost all abortions in Alabama sparked strong reactions in the United States. It also, however, resonated abroad, and particularly in the...
View ArticleTrump v. The “I” Word
There is a theory—one bordering, in some circles, on conventional wisdom—that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Donald Trump are in complete agreement about impeachment. “It seems that Trump and...
View ArticleThe Planet Is Not on “Fucking Fire”
Bill Nye has reached the end of his rope. He’s been trying to explain complex scientific concepts to a general audience in a joyous, digestible way for more than a quarter century. But there’s one...
View ArticleThe Radicalization of Fiona Scott Morton
If you attend enough conferences about antitrust policy, and I’ll impress you by saying that I have, you will inevitably hear two familiar words: “chilling” and “humble.” Any effort to prosecute...
View ArticleMake the IRS Great Again
The story of human government is largely the story of tax collection. One of the oldest written records, a 6,000-year-old clay tablet found in the Mesopotamian city of Lagash, captures a citizen’s...
View ArticleBrexit’s Lowest Moment Yet
Britain’s industries are facing insolvencies, its jobs are being sent overseas, and its pound is being driven down. In addition, there has been a cabinet coup, a high-profile resignation, and rumors...
View ArticleA Demoralizing Debate About Liberalism
Liberalism is under dire threat. On one hand, far-right parties are rising in Europe and a menacing American president is playing footsy with fascists and eager to pardon convicted war criminals. On...
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