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Sinking into MAGA’s Moral Cesspool
Vivek Ramaswamy’s critics are right to condemn his vile ad. But do they have a realistic way to reverse the degradation of the Republican Party?
It’s been about two months since I published a post about how I write about day-to-day politic...
The Existential Right
Why I can’t quit reading, quarreling with, and, yes, sometimes learning from conservative critics of the status quo
I’ve completed a draft of my book on Leo Strauss. I’ll spend the next couple of months revising, cleaning up footnotes, and...
France Is Fighting on the Front Lines of Western Civilization
Or so the populist right would have you believe
This website is such a potent radicalization machine. My whole feed is incendiary images from France paired w proclamations that this is a civilizational disaster—w/o any historical context a...
Stuck in a Disjunctive Present
How did we end up mired in an era of political impotence?
A subscriber has written to tell me that for those who aren’t paying subscribers to John Ganz’s Unpopular Front Substack there was a paywall in the post I shared on Thursday morning...
American Barbarism
Further thoughts on thumos and the experience of living in a country with a government attempting to encourage more of it
I’m still thinking about thumos, I’m afraid, and in particular about Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech last wee...
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