

The return of the ugly American?
As Vladimir Putin "sets the stage for large-scale offensive operations this summer," reengineers the Russian economy for producing...
May 203 min read
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How and when conservatism's intellectual death throes began
How did we come to such a low state of affairs hustled by the lowest and least deserving among us, America's netherworld of loutish...
May 193 min read
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A bit of a beef with Hannah Arendt
Other than each of the three-dozen plays written by Shakespeare, Montaigne's Essays and Marcus Aurelius' Meditations have most profoundly...
May 183 min read
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A must-read to-do
I had planned on writing about the Trump regime's most recent hysteria — feigned, every bit of it — about former FBI director James...
May 172 min read
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The utter bizarreness of Medicaid, GOP pols and their voters
The general upshot of a newly released research study of the Affordable Care Act's expansion of healthcare for the poor might first...
May 163 min read
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Examining friendships with Trumpers
In an Atlantic podcast conversation last week, David Frum asked Anne Applebaum, "How do you cope with people whom you once held dear...
May 154 min read
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