Trump the Redeemer

Despite the claims of some liberals, the MAGA Right is not unchristian, but the apotheosis of a violent strain of entirely American Christianity.

The Suicide of American Conservatism

American conservatism is largely an intellectual corpse, killed by people who claim to be conservatives.

Eric Adams Must Go

We cannot have a mayor who answers to Trump's DOJ.

How to Win a Rigged Game

The Civil Rights Movement is worth studying not just because they were right, but because they won.

Is It a Coup?

It is bad, it is illegal, and it is a self-coup.

Representation Matters

It’s not enough, but without it, there’s only segregation and extermination.

Trump and Musk’s Illegal and Undemocratic Attack on the Power of the Purse

The Ketamine Koup is fundamentally about unilateral control of the federal government's money.

The New State Media

A corrupt bargain has been struck between the oligarchs who own our public squares and the autocrats who aspire to own our country.

Elon Musk Is Working His Hardest to Make a Chinese Century

The Ketamine Koup will make America a mediocre backwater.

Once and Future Liberal Institutionalism

When conservatives want to burn down the system.

Big Structural Change—Jesus to Marx

Only in modernity can the rich tell themselves that it is wrong to pity the poor, that their own wealth alongside another’s poverty is simply justice in action. 

Personal Discretion Over the Treasury's Payments System Means the End of Democracy

If the Court and federal workers fail to stop Elon Musk, we are heading for authoritarianism.