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Monthly Archives: October 2016
Jonathan Chait: The GOP’s Age of Authoritarianism Has Only Just Begun – New York
The likelihood that Hillary Clinton will win on November 8 reduces the possibility of total conservative control within the next four years. But Trump has revealed — and hastened — the Republican Party’s transformation. In June, Ed Conard, a former…
Andrew Delbanco: On the Election II – The New York Review of Books
The lesson of this campaign, on both sides, is that with the fragile exception of the Affordable Care Act, which has expanded the number of citizens with health insurance, our clotted political system has failed to meet the emergency of…
Francis Wilkinson: GOP Civil War Is Clinton’s to Win – Bloomberg View
Trump’s crusade to alienate a record number of college-educated white women voters seems likely to succeed. A vicious war waged by congressional Republicans against the first woman president may do for women what unscrupulous attacks against the nation’s first black…
Ryan Lizza: The Post-Trump Fate of the Reformicons – The New Yorker
Trump became the Frankenstein’s monster of Reformicon candidates, taking on the group’s respectable positions—such as skepticism about the economic benefits of immigration—and rendering them into an indefensible state. Frum, the author of “Why Romney Lost,” told me, “I feel like…
Itani and Abouzahr: Lessons from Russia’s Intervention in Syria – Atlantic Council
Whatever its merits, the United States’ limited involvement in Syria granted Russia a powerful first-mover advantage, which in turn has complicated US policy options, granted a strategic foothold to a historical rival, facilitated mass atrocities, and undermined the concept of…
Sign of the Sign
Bridget O’Neil directs us to this signature, from a letter written in 2007 to the LA Times by this year’s Republican Party nominee for the Presidency of the United States of America:
Jordan Belamire: My First Virtual Reality Groping – Athena Talks
“Stop!” I cried. I must have laughed from the embarrassment and the ridiculousness of the situation. Women, after all, are supposed to be cool, and take any form of sexual harassment with a laugh. But I still told him to…
Ross Douthat: What the Right’s Intellectuals Did Wrong – NYTimes.com
[T]oday, three generations after Buckley and Burnham, the academy and the mass media are arguably more hostile to conservative ideas than ever, and the courts and the bureaucracy are trending in a similar direction. Reflecting on this harsh reality has…
Casey ex Australia: Confronting the Credibility Gap for Crewed Exploration of Mars
To what extent are we responsible for the credibility gap? We should know better than anyone that there are real challenges that can’t be wished away, that Mars is hard, and that “all you gotta do” doesn’t really cut it…