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A lecture from Meghan Cox Gurdon. What year is it (#649)?
Jacob Weisberg makes the unconvincing case that “43” is consumed by his legacy.
It’s an odd relationship bound for destruction. What year is it (#648)?
Why the attacks have rarely been dramatized, and why younger generations treat it so callously.
The man who isn’t on the ballot must enthuse his supporters.
Andy Kessler writes a common-sense political column, a rarity this year. What year is it (#647)?
The now almost-forgotten author of Primary Colors wallows on Substack.
There’s no sense in asking why this disgraced columnist still has a job at The New York Times. What year is it (#645)?
As a result of the debacle, Portland’s irremediable homeless problem was placed into stark relief.
It’s not true. And when Trump leaves office, maybe self-absorbed pundits will also crash the exit gates.
Who’s afraid of a lesbian Virginia Woolf tat?
Zohran Mamdani triggers a near-identical brand of apoplectic foam-frothing among his conservative critics.
For inspiring models of political reform, look beyond old European categories.
Trump has broken their minds and it's the only way to fix them.
Is there still something to be lost by officially coming out as a gay Republican?
An upcoming book examines post-liberalism.
James Chandler's new book pathologizes the entire conservative movement as a “spectacle without thought."
Now this is kind of crazy.
Vast swaths of the economy are probably a mistake.
Washington is investigating the hardware. It should ban it.
The former news anchor talks about the decline of traditional media, Democrats digging their heels in, and what our country has lost in the last decade.
The conservative wipes the floor with the comedian.
The former newscaster talks to Friedland in this recently aired "lost episode."
The Playboy publisher clashes with radical feminists Susan Brownmiller and Sally Kempton on this March 26, 1970 episode of The Dick Cavett Show.
Lewinsky talks double standards, slut shaming, and how she reclaimed her narrative.
Big surprise.
The Los Angeles mayoral candidate on crime, corruption, California, and more in this new interview.
The Governor of Maryland on the military, Oprah, Iran, and more.
"We can't be controlled by monolithic thought."