Politics in America The Republican Party “became defined by what was left: its resentments and suspicions, its antagonisms and obsessions, its anger and its differences” Author Drew Kaplan Date 24 October 2017 The focal point for much of the post-Bush right’s anger and resentment was the...
Politics in America “Trump’s innovation is to have mined a deeper vein of cynicism, exhausting the weary tropes of polite political discourse” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 September 2017 …Trump is pivoting constantly. Or perhaps more accurately, the man is so erratic that...
Politics in America “…accusations of ‘virtue signaling’ are, more than anything, a way of walking out on that argument and dismissing it altogether…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 September 2017 …accusations of “virtue signaling” are, more than anything, a way of walking out on...
Politics in America “Fetishizing civility has a way of elevating style over substance” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 September 2017 Fetishizing civility has a way of elevating style over substance. Richard Spencer, the white...
Politics in America “When did our national discourse become so consumed with the state of our national discourse?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 September 2017 When did our national discourse become so consumed with the state of our national...
America, Pop Culture “Americans are surely the maestros of reappropriation” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 September 2017 …Americans are surely the maestros of reappropriation. Conservatives turned the phrase “vast right-wing conspiracy”...
Politics in America “Part of what makes the modern use of ‘winning’ so strange is that it’s often used in contexts that are not competitions” Author Drew Kaplan Date 30 August 2017 Part of what makes the modern use of “winning” so strange is that it’s...
America, War, World War II “We entered the war against Germany in 1941, but not because they were Nazis…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 August 2017 We entered the war against Germany in 1941, but not because they were Nazis....
Politics in America “Every day, Trump wakes up and erodes the dignity of the Presidency a little more” Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 August 2017 Trump is hardly the first bad President in American history—he has not had adequate...
Europe, Politics in America “Everyone knows that populism has fundamentally altered the rules of Western politics. But no one has deduced what the new rules are” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 August 2017 Everyone knows that populism has fundamentally altered the rules of Western politics. But no...