Europe, Politics in America “The Trumpian rebellion against liberal democracy is not a local event; it is part of a disturbing global trend” Author Drew Kaplan Date May 2, 2017 The Trump Presidency represents a rebellion against liberalism itself—an angry assault on the advances...
Orthodoxy, Politics in America “Many in our community contend that President Trump’s strong support of Israel counterbalances his defects and justifies our support of him. I do not agree because l am fearful and I very much hope that I turn out to be wrong that his antics will end up being detrimental to both this country and to Israel” Author Drew Kaplan Date April 6, 2017 In democracies, elections come and go rather frequently and the day after, the rain...
Politics in America “To outsiders, #GamerGate looked like a cesspool of angry, entitled young men nobody else wanted to talk to. But some right-wing figures spied an opportunity” Author Drew Kaplan Date March 31, 2017 To outsiders, #GamerGate looked like a cesspool of angry, entitled young men nobody else...
Politics in America “The problem in Washington is not a Deep State; the problem is a shallow man…” Author Drew Kaplan Date March 30, 2017 The problem in Washington is not a Deep State; the problem is a shallow...
Politics in America “If we want to restore respect for facts and break through the intellectual ghettos on both the right and left, the mainstream media will have to be aggressive without being hysterical and adversarial without being unduly oppositional” Author Drew Kaplan Date March 13, 2017 Mr. Trump and company seem to be betting that much of the electorate will...
Politics in America “If close to half of America voted for Republicans in the Obama years and support Trump today, then clearly something besides the pieties of cosmopolitan liberalism is very much a part of who we are” Author Drew Kaplan Date March 12, 2017 “That’s not who we are.” So said President Obama, again and again throughout his...
News Media, Politics in America “This New York-iest of politicians, now an idiosyncratic, write-your-own-rules president, has stumbled into the most conventional of Washington traps…” Author Drew Kaplan Date March 10, 2017 The White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, has taken to slapping journalists who write...
Environment, Politics in America “Just as the world seemed poised to embark on a collective effort to wean itself off dependency on fossil fuels, its leading power elected as president a man who has claimed that global warming is a conspiracy invented by the Chinese and who went on to select as his secretary of state the chairman of Exxon Mobil” Author Drew Kaplan Date March 9, 2017 Arctic ice cover reached record lows this summer and fall, while in Antarctica, we...
Politics in America “Bipartisan agreement about the future of the planet falls apart not over the bomb but over the climate” Author Drew Kaplan Date March 7, 2017 Trump has often contradicted himself on the subject of nuclear weapons, but one of...
Politics in America “Fortunately for Trump, most voters have no real idea how the government spends its money…” Author Drew Kaplan Date March 7, 2017 Trump won’t be sending a formal budget to Congress for a few weeks. But...