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The Bad Faith of the New Religious Right

Produced by ‘The Argument’ The sweeping rise of Christian nationalism on the right has taken extreme forms since the election…

This Is How the U.S. Will Stand With Taiwan

Vladimir Putin’s brutal attack on his Ukrainian neighbors has sparked global outrage — and forged unprecedented unity — among the…

American Democracy Is Not the Beacon It Once Was for Africa’s Elite

NAIROBI — A Kenyan friend of mine who graduated from Harvard Business School recently told me that the United States…

The Violent Fantasies of Blake Masters

Blake Masters’s first campaign ad opens with a shot of the Sonoran Desert. A plaintive piano theme tinkles as Mr.…

Are Participles a Thing of the Past?

I want to follow up on the topic of language evolution that I took up in my previous newsletter about…

The Last Thing We Needed Was Pelosi Backing Down From a Bully

Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan carries undeniable risks. Beijing could respond by harassing U.S. Navy ships and aircraft in the…

Eli N. Evans, Who Wrote About Jews in the American South, Dies at 85

Eli N. Evans, a courtly Carolina Tarheel who rose to the upper ranks of the New York philanthropic world, but…

Who’s Embargoing Whom?

The other day, my CUNY and Stone Center colleague Branko Milanovic suggested that it would be interesting to “compare Napoleon’s…

The Al Qaeda That Ayman al-Zawahri Leaves Behind

When President Biden announced the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan last year, one of his main justifications was that…

The Books Merger That’s About Amazon

Amazon isn’t on trial in a big books lawsuit. But its power is. The U.S. government is suing to stop…

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