Politics in America “The danger is that a class identity founded on collective labor is replaced by an identity founded on resentment, further destabilizing our politics” Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 January 2017 It’s sometimes said that the value of manufacturing work is exaggerated, and that we...
Politics in America, Radio “One staple of every radio talk show was, of course, the bias of the mainstream media” Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 January 2017 One staple of every radio talk show was, of course, the bias of the...
Politics in America “What liberals find objectionable is a politicized vision of authentic faith that amounts to a simple set of core beliefs…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 January 2017 What liberal “elites” — believers and nonbelievers — find objectionable is not religion, but...
Politics in America “Implying that American public opinion can be ‘tainted’ by exposure to foreign influence contains disturbing — and distinctly archaic — undertones of a call to national purity” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 January 2017 …if the American media and a large part of the American public believe that...
Politics in America, Races in America “If you are going to mention groups in America, you had better mention all of them” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 January 2017 One of the many lessons of the recent presidential election campaign and its repugnant...
Politics in America “When Republicans have total control of the government, they will bear the responsibility for its failures” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 January 2017 Throughout the Obama administration, the G.O.P. has had the mind-set of an opposition party,...
Politics in America “The state of our politics also explains why none of the revelations, outrages or gaffes seemed to dent Mr. Trump’s popularity” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 January 2017 When I wrote in August 2015 that Mr. Trump was a cartoon version of...
Politics in America “By denying known and provable facts…or by rejecting facts that are not publicly known…, Mr. Trump exercises his ever-growing power over the public sphere” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 January 2017 If there is one trait that Mr. Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of...
Politics in America “A post-identity liberal press would begin educating itself about parts of the country that have been ignored, and about what matters there, especially religion” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 January 2017 We need a post-identity liberalism, and it should draw from the past successes of...
Politics in America “…the top issue that drove Trump’s voters to the polls was…was immigration, an issue on which we’ve abandoned serious debate…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 December 2016 The same white working-class voters who re-elected Obama four years ago did not cast...