A Politics of Lies Is Not ‘Legitimate’
It is not good for the republic if beneficial policies are achieved by means of a massive disinformation campaign led by the president.
Re: Is It Still a ‘Coup’ If Democrats Do It?
Trump’s court strategy and not just his legislative one is ‘deeply improper and damaging.’
Bander, Gaia, Locke
How today’s anti-liberals get the Second Treatise of Government wrong.
To ‘Steal’ an Election
There remains a real question as to whether Trump’s post-election conduct weakened the norms and the system.
System over Policy, Nation over Faction
You can reverse bad policies more easily than you can repair damage to our practice of republican democracy itself.
Trump’s Election Disinformation: Three ‘Don’t’s
“Disinformation” is the only adequate word.
Statistics on Officer-Involved Shootings Do Not End the Debate about Bias in Policing
The limitations of the shooting statistics become palpable when we reflect that they are blind to the very case we are all talking about.
Re: The Disturbing Campaign against Tucker Carlson
If we want to talk about “disturbing,” I would nominate these recent remarks by Tucker Carlson.
An Afterthought on Lafayette Square
Barr’s statement is not specific enough to neutralize the criticisms.
In Defense of James Mattis
Mattis’s broader point that the president is needlessly divisive and seems at times to think of the military as a meretricious prop is true.