” It turns out that what Democrats were missing was a sense of existential emergency. Mr. Trump has provided it”
One hundred days into his administration, President Trump has few legislative achievements to his...
“…the parade music at the end [of The Phantom Menace] is ‘The Emperor’s Theme’ in disguise”
“The Emperor’s Theme” shows up, you know, a couple times, so “The Emperor’s Theme”...
“This notion — that America is not simply another nation-state but an ‘idea’ — is itself the big American idea, the “beating heart” of what’s known as American exceptionalism”
This notion — that America is not simply another nation-state but an “idea” —...
“The fight to save Main Street, then as now, was less about the price of goods gained than the cost of autonomy lost”
…nostalgia for Main Street is misplaced — and costly. Small stores are inefficient. Local...
“Politics is being reshaped, and this phenomenon is the same whether it is in the United States or in Europe”
Politics is being reshaped, and this phenomenon is the same whether it is in...
“American craft brewing is American manufacturing that doesn’t outsource these well-paying American jobs”
The growth and the excitement in the beer business is in craft, and its...
“The idealized vision of 1950s womanhood that still permeates our politics ignores the fact that staying home may not actually make mothers happy”
The idealized vision of 1950s womanhood that still permeates our politics ignores the fact...
“…people can mistake truth for rudeness, and rudeness for truth. It may only be by examining the aftermath of each that it becomes possible to prove which was which”
The social code remains unwritten, and it has always interested me how many problems...
“The intellectual and political task ahead is at once to resist the ugliest manifestations of the new right-wing populism…and to confront the consequences of globalism, technology, and cultural change”
The opposition to Trump also has to give deeper thought to why a demagogue...
“The liberal elite are in shock; they fall upon the notion of the victors’ regret as a palliative for their mental distress…”
In the aftermath of their victory, the winners are markedly unmagnanimous. They brand those...