Chapter 21 (pp. 169–175) from The Reconstruction Papers.

Hanania is a reminder of the dangers of rehabilitating extremist intellectuals.

A leader operating beyond the margins of the law can yet eventually be defeated in a free and fair election.

One of America's most intractable problems.

Chapter 20 (pp. 162–168) from The Reconstruction Papers.

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We must channel our anger at current injustices into productive direct action.

After folding on trans rights, James Talarico does not have my respect. Honestly, fuck him. And yet, Ken Paxton (R) must lose.

A leader operating beyond the margins of the law can yet eventually be defeated in a free and fair election.

To forgo any effort at protecting American democracy or the rights of its people in the name of norms is mere moral cowardice.

A leader operating beyond the margins of the law can yet eventually be defeated in a free and fair election.

A leader operating beyond the margins of the law can yet eventually be defeated in a free and fair election.

"Sex-based rights" are a Potemkin feminism that commit us to a theory of objective sex where there is something special about your very biology that entitles you to special treatment not deserved by o...

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Don’t miss the forest for the tallest trees.

Paddy Chayefsky’s take on television captured the Long 1970s—and anticipated the rise of social media.

Chapter 20 (pp. 162–168) from The Reconstruction Papers.

We know what to do with Trump and his stooges. The harder question is what to do with the ordinary Americans we will have to live alongside afterwards.

Don’t miss the forest for the tallest trees.

We know what to do with Trump and his stooges. The harder question is what to do with the ordinary Americans we will have to live alongside afterwards.

Don’t miss the forest for the tallest trees.

Don’t miss the forest for the tallest trees.

Don’t miss the forest for the tallest trees.

If Congress is to tackle issues from DOGE sabotage to AI to social media, it needs to resurrect its Office of Technology Assessment.

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.

Chapter 20 (pp. 162–168) from The Reconstruction Papers.

Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.

We must channel our anger at current injustices into productive direct action.

Chapter 20 (pp. 162–168) from The Reconstruction Papers.

The descent of stable societies into ones of endemic violence rarely produces anything but new forms of tyranny and terror.

Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.

A conversation about how politics is about more than just policy.

We must channel our anger at current injustices into productive direct action.

We must channel our anger at current injustices into productive direct action.

Democratic voters want to end the filibuster, nationalize artificial intelligence, and prosecute every Trump toady.

Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.

Structural factors are driving us towards a more chaotic and lawless world.

Democratic voters want to end the filibuster, nationalize artificial intelligence, and prosecute every Trump toady.

Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.

Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.

Democratic voters want to end the filibuster, nationalize artificial intelligence, and prosecute every Trump toady.

Tactical and technological innovations on the battlefield, and the brutal realities of war.

Looking at what’s just behind us in preparation for the week ahead.

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