I talk to The New York Times about why it seems everyone from JD Vance to CT Sen. Chris Murphy is talking (and fighting) about reviving one of the oldest ways of thinking about politics
Wanna know why DSA-aligned candidates are doing so well at the ballot box? Look at the data—and pay attention to how much it now costs to attend a football game or concert.
I answer questions about why I’m so opposed to court packing; how I manage to teach, write Substack posts, and scramble to finish a book all at once; and whether legacy media is headed for extinction
Thoughts on whether the Democrats should woo the leftist “influencer” or tell him to stay the hell away—and why the answer has a lot to do with our electoral system in the United States
I answer questions from paid subscribers about how I understand morality, what the right institutional response to Trumpism should be, and which Beatles songs are my favorites
If Iraq was a drunk driving incident on the world stage, the Iran War is the most powerful nation on the planet behaving exactly like what it is: a country led by sociopath
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