Politics in America “…much of contemporary discourse and pretty much all of American politics is a dispute over evidence” Author Drew Kaplan Date 24 July 2016 Empiricists believed they had deduced a method by which they could discover a universe...
Politics in America “The irrelevance of facts is part of what observers mean when they say that the normal rules of politics don’t apply to Trump” Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 June 2016 The irrelevance of facts is part of what observers mean when they say that...
Politics in America “Trump is playing to one of the most powerful emotions in our economic life—what behavioral economists call loss aversion” Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 June 2016 Trump is playing to one of the most powerful emotions in our economic life—what...
Politics in America “…if you think a little thing like losing a general election will dispose of Ted Cruz’s ambitions, you don’t know Ted Cruz” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 May 2016 Unloved, unattractive, a Simpsons-quoting nerd still chasing the teenage dream of world domination, the...
Politics in America “With Cruz, though, even the most fervent peroration always feels like a debater’s patter, an advocate’s brief…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 May 2016 Enough, for one week at least, about the strange victories of Donald Trump. Let’s...
Politics in America “Cruz is the pinup for pessimistic times” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 April 2016 Cruz is the pinup for pessimistic times. Even John McCain, who once dismissed him...
Politics in America “The 19th-century antecedent that Trump evokes in his nativist appeals to white working- and middle-class Americans is not the populism of the People’s Party but rather that of the Know-Nothing Party of the 1850s…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 April 2016 The 19th-century antecedent that Trump evokes in his nativist appeals to white working- and...
Politics in America “Cruz has gone from the insufferable nemesis of Republican traditionalists to their last, best hope…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 April 2016 Cruz has gone from the insufferable nemesis of Republican traditionalists to their last, best...
Journalism, News Media, Politics in America, Television “Our first big failing was that television in particular handed Trump the microphone without adequately fact-checking him or rigorously examining his background, in a craven symbiosis that boosted audiences for both” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 April 2016 Those of us in the news media have sometimes blamed Donald Trump’s rise on...
Politics in America “…unrealistic as Trump’s ideas are, they differ from those of his chief opponents only in degree, not in kind” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 April 2016 In 1980, the third-party Presidential candidate John Anderson succinctly summed up Ronald Reagan’s promise...