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Weird and Getting Weirder All the Time
What the data-center backlash tells us about the breakdown of self-government
When Ross Douthat launched his Interesting Times podcast with The New York Times, he said somewhere that he was going to be talking to lots of different kinds of...
A Politics of the Common Good?
I talk to The New York Times about why it seems everyone from JD Vance to CT Sen. Chris Murphy is talking (and fighting) about reviving one of the oldest ways of thinking about politics
Early this week, as I began thinking about what I mig...
What Was “Woke 1”?
All these years later, many of us still fall short of understand what was distinctive and pernicious about the Great Awokening
I suspect some of my subscribers will roll their eyes when they see I’ve written a post in the summer of 2026 de...
How Not to Be an Online Intellectual
No one annoys me on Twitter/X more than these five people
This might seem like an unusually frivolous post from incorrigibly high-minded me. But hey, it’s mid-August; if I lived in Europe, I’d be off all month. I also remain deep into book...
Economic (and Political) Dangers Looming Ahead
Wanna know why DSA-aligned candidates are doing so well at the ballot box? Look at the data—and pay attention to how much it now costs to attend a football game or concert.
I’m starting to get a little worried.
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Senior Lecturer in Dept of Pol Sci @ Penn. "Notes from the Middleground" at Substack; Senior Fellow, Niskanen Center; author of "The Theocons" & "The Religious Test"; former columnist w The Week
I am a political and media historian at the University of Pennsylvania and a senior editor of Made by History at Time Magazine. Find out more at BrianRosenwald.com
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