Portraits of an American Dopamine Eater
Our attention economy incentivizes the profane degradations of fame-seeking and celebrity culture.
Editor's Notes: The New Fugitive Slave Controversy Is Already Upon Us
The crisis is older than the second Trump term.
Bending the Knee at Yale
Why is it that Maurie McInnis and her fellow elites crumbled so instantaneously?
Editor's Notes: They Hate Us For Our Freedoms
The existence and idea of freedom and cosmopolitan diversity is an existential threat to authoritarians big and small.
The World That Woke 2.0 Seeks to Build
We can learn from the Civil Rights Movement, but we can also learn from its opposition.
Guardrails for Democracy: How Congress Can Reinforce Privacy Rights and Independent Oversight
Chapter 4 (pp. 18–25) from The Reconstruction Papers.
How Taylor Sheridan's Fever Dreams Explain MAGA Foreign Policy (Neon Liberalism #88, with SecDef Rock)
The demented politics of "Lioness" have infected the Pentagon.
Elites Need Some Emotional Distance from Social Media
Twenty-plus years on, it’s time they started adapting to the realities of the era.
Liberal Currents Live: J. K. Rowling and the Problem of the Extremely Online Elites
So much can be explained by the overcooking of these people's brains on X.