Politics in America “The very things that can make the center so appealing, however, are also its great weaknesses” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 March 2019 The very things that can make the center so appealing, however, are also its...
America, Israel, Politics in America, Politics in Israel “There are really important arenas…where the comparisons between these two countries need to be interrogated, and where deep work has to take place in order to ensure that the two societies are not reinforcing each others’ weaknesses” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 February 2019 There are really important arenas – ideological trends like the rise of nationalism and...
Politics in America “Trump’s assault on the premises of democracy is not only unique in modern American history but unique in the annals of modern liberal democracy” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 October 2018 Trump’s assault on the premises of democracy is not only unique in modern American...
Politics in America “‘Classified’ still conjures images of top-secret government plots, but, in Trump’s Washington, it’s more often used to describe information that the president would prefer to keep quiet” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 April 2018 Trump has been merciless toward anyone else in government who reveals his administration’s secrets,...
Politics in America, Semantics “When underlying conditions are already suffused with politics, doing nothing can itself constitute a political act” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 March 2018 Change, of course, is inherently destabilizing. It upsets an existing state of affairs that...
Politics in America, Semantics “Politicization is the last refuge of the scoundrel” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 March 2018 Politicization is the last refuge of the scoundrel. To “politicize” something — hurricanes, intelligence,...
Jewish Community “The existence of multiple moral frameworks with which to view the world is not a sign of confusion; it is a sign of sophistication and strength” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 November 2017 I recognize that there are those people, on the right and on the left,...
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...
Europe “It remains unclear whether anti-establishment voters, in this election or others, tend to choose the most anti-establishment platform, the most outside-the-system leader or the opposite of whoever is in power” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 September 2017 Few systems in the world are more complex than the one between a person’s...