This bloc won’t be wooed by cosplay and pandering.
Joseph McCarthy
Posted inForeign Policy
America’s Illiberal Internationalism
The Republican Party’s turn against liberal internationalism is not a passing Trump aberration but a reversion to long-standing illiberalism on the American right.
Posted inBooks
God and Man at Sea
William F. Buckley Jr. spent a lifetime trying to make a coherent intellectual case for conservatism but could never articulate what it was supposed to consist of apart from owning the libs.
Posted inPolitics
Trump’s Blunderbuss War on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
With his McCarthyite witch hunt, the President makes no distinction between DEI programs that work and those that don’t, explains a scholar of the public sector.
Posted inPolitics
Let’s Retire the Word “Woke”
When the history of “woke” attitudes, sentiments, and policies is written, two events of different kinds and magnitude will be remembered. Both took place in the San Francisco Bay Area in the past week. The first and by far the most important is the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, which did not collapse from wokeness […]
Posted inPolitics
Jim Jordan’s Reckless New Committee
The MAGA congressman chairs the new House committee on the “weaponization of the federal government” and is vowing to use it to probe open federal investigations.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Will There Be an Edward R. Murrow of the Trump Era?
We are once again facing a moment when there are not two equal and logical sides to the argument.
Posted inFeatured, Politics
Did Devin Nunes Obstruct Justice?
In a brazen attempt to undermine the Russia investigation, Nunes is sullying the FBI before moving on to defame other government agencies.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Trump and the Triumph of Fake News
It’s hard to dispute one word of Brian Stelter’s February 4 condemnation of the GOP’s memo-based malevolence–and the right-wing media’s key role in fueling the foolishness of Donald Trump and Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA): Geraldo Rivera is also unquestionably correct: had Fox News and Hannity been a prominent cultural/political force in the early 1970s, Richard […]
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When Conspiracy Theories Become Real
Trump’s Russia connections once sounded outrageous, but now have the makings of actual conspiracy.
