A Democracy, If You Can Keep It
James TraubInstead of whining about the crisis of democracy, I explore real solutions to it.
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Graham Platner Intoxication Syndrome
I recently read Roy Blount’s wonderful short biography of Robert E. Lee. For the biographer, Lee poses in the most extreme possible form the discrepancy between personal virtue and moral evil. (I faced a slightly less exacting dilemma in my...
"The highest American patriotism is to seek and promote social justice."
The language of patriotism having been hijacked by scoundrels, we find it difficult, on this day celebrating the 250th anniversary of our independence, to speak of love of country without at least a faint sense of embarrassment. If patrioti...
Abolish The Founding!
For all their flaws, including of course slave-holding, the Founders deserve the attention we lavish on them–the statues, the historical re-enactments, the portraits on the money. Yet there’s a fixity to the metaphor of founding–of the nati...
Don't Worry About The Iran Peace Deal
The Iran peace deal is not the worst diplomatic agreement in American history. That is not because, say, the Versailles Treaty was worse; it wasn’t. It’s because the Versailles Treaty was implemented, and thus its punitive terms embittered...
The UN Isn't Quite Dead
(For its special issue, “The End Of. . .”, Foreign Policy asked me to write an essay about the UN. Below is the link, and then the piece itself.)
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/15/united-nations-obituary-gaza-ukraine-trump/?utm_content=...
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