
The world as it is and the world as it should be. Writing on politics and power, history and travel, books and the people I meet along the way.
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On Tuesday, my book All We Say: The Battle for American Identity will be published. Before it enters the wild, I wanted to share the backstory of why – and how – I wrote it.
Writing a book is like being in a relationship. You are going to...
Last week I moved out of the rented room where I spend most of my days writing, reading, and thinking. This involved carrying hundreds of books to my car to be shuttled to a new room, trying to break down (often unsuccessfully) my assembly-...
“No purely political or economic explanation of the Nazi revolution is adequate,” E. Amy Buller writes in the hauntingly relevant Darkness Over Germany. There was, in addition, a spiritual component: a hypnotic exaltation of power itself....
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John le Carre once wrote that a nation’s intelligence services function as its subconscious, the unseen force that both shapes and mirrors society. By contrast, it turns out that you can tell a lot about the state of America’s ego by the na...
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Pod Save the World. New York Times. Author: All We Say, After the Fall, and the World As It Is. Former Obama speechwriter and deputy national security advisor. Knicks and Mets.
Host of "Runaway Country" on Crooked Media + author of "How the Hell with Alex Wagner" on Substack + contributor, "Pod Save America" + MSNOW senior political analyst + worried mom + lover of milkshakes
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