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Uncanny Alliances

The New Anti-Semites Are Evil—and Boring

Sovereignty and Annihilation

One Direction, and the Direction of Internet Discourse

Europe’s Creeping Deindustrialization

Call Her Harris: The VP’s Podcast Week

Who Is to Blame for Wokeness?

Chucking the vibes

The J.D. Vance I’d Been Waiting For

Black MAGA-ites and the Diminishment of Discourse

Blame Marx?

Broken Subway, Broken Empire

On not picking a side

The Post-9/11 Vibe Shift

China’s New Lobbyist: Wall Street

On campus encampments and the non-traditional right

Social Democracy for National Security

Choosing [actual] joy amidst political fatigue

Kamala the Border Hawk? Not So Fast

Blame Postmodernists?

Mass Producing the Narrative at the DNC...and beyond

The Common Good and ‘None of Your Damn Business’

Eco-Terrorism, Ukrainian-Style

Tim Walz and Hegelian E-girls

Steer Clear of the DeSantis Lane, Don!

The Olympics Exposes Our Impoverished Imagination

Kamala’s Based Old-Left Dad

Blame Foucault? (Part 3)

What’s race got to do with the race

Kamala’s Best Veep Choice

A Marxist, a Showman, and a Hillbilly Walk Into a Bar…

The New Center Is Here

A spectacular scene

Yes to the Populist Compromise on Abortion

The Best of America

On the Need for a Tragic Culture

The Supreme Court vs. Tyranny, Inc.

Anne Applebaum, Warmonger for Peace

Blame Foucault? (Part 2)

Rural Neo-Iconoclasm

Whose Xenophobia? Which Nationalism?

The Hidden Impulse

So You Ended Up on a Ukrainian Enemies List. . . .

Revenge of the Provinces

A Setback for ‘Sado-Progressivism’

Biden’s Border Kabuki

Justice and Vengeance

The Next Nation, the Next Church

Mediation

Blame Foucault? (Part 1)

On Being Middle-Aged

The Left Learns the Perils of Safety-ism—the Hard Way

Progress, Protest, and Pathology

Sahra Wagenknecht, My Political Queen

Historical Imagination

Have You No Sense of Decency, Mr. Kasparov?

The Crisis of Culture

Yes, I’m a Proud ‘Khan-Servative’

The Civil War Will Not Be Mediated

My Right-Wing Reactionary Case for Shutting the Border

Blame the Greeks? (Part 1)

After Cancel Culture

How Biden Made Me a ‘Minority’

Statues Also Live

The Failure of Quixotic Conservatism

Friendship and Betrayal

Blood and Soil for Liberals

Hang on a Minute!

Blame Butler?

Against Sado-Progressivism

The UK’s Antiterror Unit Reads My X Posts!

Blame Deconstruction?

Angus Deaton’s Econ 101 Regrets

Notes from Nina

Victoria Nuland Stops Failing Up

‘Dune’ and the War of Online Factions

Notes from Nina

‘There Will Be No Solution on the Battlefield’: Hungarian Foreign Minister

‘Blame Theory’ Launches in New York—Join Us!

Google Gemini’s Cringe Socialist Realism

Notes from Nina

New Left Review’s Broken Dialectic

From Jordan Peterson’s Nonsense, Deliver Us, O Lord

Notes from Nina

The Cynical Idiocy of ‘National Review’ Conservatism

The Weird Racial Right Plays Dress-Up