Editor's Notes: For MAGA, Children Are Property
These people cannot comprehend the simple truth that their children are independent, autonomous beings, with their own lives and desires.
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.
You Won’t Win the Revolution
The descent of stable societies into ones of endemic violence rarely produces anything but new forms of tyranny and terror.
Meet the Democrats
The party is not an abstract cabal powered by fever dreams, but a living, breathing coalition held together by a ceaseless grind and people with the will to face it.
Headwaters: August 31–September 6, 2026
Looking at what’s just behind us in preparation for the week ahead.
Labor Economist Explains: To Fix Inequality, Start Young (Neon Liberalism #89, with Kathryn Anne Edwards)
What makes for a good economy on a generational scale?
A Progressive Push in Purple New Hampshire
Congressional hopeful Carleigh Beriont says left-leaning politics can succeed in the Granite State.
We Need a Plan for What Comes Next. The Reconstruction Papers Is the Beginning of That Plan.
Repair will not be an option. We will have to rebuild atop the wreckage.