A recent Jennifer Harris essay explicating and defending the “post-neoliberal” worldview helped me to understand what this debate is about in a slightly different way. Harris, drawing on Thomas Kuhn, ...

If you’re in the DC area, I’m hosting a book talk for Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld about their new book “The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics.” I ...

Doing the podcast rounds to promote “One Billion Americans,” I was pleasantly surprised by how frequently I was able to get to yes with conservative hosts about immigration. I would tell them that I ...

What happened instead was that Bernie got in the race and then gained some traction, Clinton became obsessed with locking down endorsements from all the Progressive Establishment interest groups, and ...

Zohran Mamdani, as mayor of New York City, is not really a key actor in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

This is the first election cycle during which I’ve been on X, and I’ve never been more tapped into polls. In past years, I knew generally who was polling well and who was tanking. This midterm cycle, ...

It’s a reminder that while Donald Trump and Rubio have substantively fumbled when it comes to defending the West and Western ...

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day to all who celebrate (or Columbus Day for those so inclined, but in D.C. it’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day). Something we like to do on these federal holidays is bring an ...

Republicans have more cash than Democrats, and they’re burning it faster — from a Kansas rescue mission to a Maine ad that ...

My basic thesis in this ongoing series about liberalism (see part one on what I mean by that word, and part two on the bogus argument that liberalism fails to provide meaning in people’s lives) is ...

America’s top priority in the Middle East should be decreasing our involvement in the region. President after president keeps vowing to do that, they’ve all failed, and now Trump has arguably failed ...