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The Senate OBBBA Dissenters

Ten Thoughts on Zohran Mamdani's Victory

An Anti-Mandate In the Offing?

Wars of Policies, Regimes and Peoples

The Street Fight Trump Wants

"Resentment" at the Manhattan Film Festival

Prolegomenon to an Aristotelian Liberalism

Will Eric Adams Win Reelection?

Ideology Is Bad For Art

Home News: Feature Film Premiere

Do Gifts To Trump Keep On Giving?

What Happens When There's No Job To Learn On?

Who Voted Against Merz?

Writing Science Fiction In the Age of A.I.

True Patriot Love

Could a U.S.-China War Break Out Post-Trump?

Why Is This Year Different From All Other Years?

The Injustice Is the Point

Four Roads Before the Abyss

Steel-Manning the Tariffs

Disqualification Is Not a Democratic Process

Of the Devil's Party, and Knowing It

Steering Into the Fiscal Crisis

Abundance Democrats and the DOGEing of America

The 2026 Senate Map Looks Great For the Opposition Party

The Work Elsewhere

Aliens Have Due Process Rights

What You See Determines What You Get: Israeli Edition

If You're Going to Nuke Vienna, Nuke Vienna

Oscar the Grouch

Is It Better To Believe In Anything Than In Nothing?

Strictly Business

Psalm 137 On My Mind

Fun With Proportional Representation: German Edition

Be Careful What You Wish For: Gaza Edition

A Solon, a King, or a Tyrant?

Revisiting the Thucydides Trap

On Pharaoh's Hardened Heart

The End of the Cordon Sanitaire

Emilia Pérez Is Not a Progressive Message Movie

Birthright Citizenship and the "Living Constitution"

The Widening Gyre

Meeting David Lynch on the Dreaming Plane

Finally, a Cease-Fire

Make America Greater Than Ever!

Is "The Brutalist" a Holocaust Film? An Architecture Film? Is This "Masterpiece" Even Much of a Film?

Is "A Real Pain" a Holocaust Film?

A Revolution That Has Run Out of Gas