Delusion, Hypocrisy, and the Threat to Democracy

“Ungoverning” is a term invented by Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum, political scientists respectively at Dartmouth and Harvard, to describe the project of “deconstructing the administrative state [conducted] by a reactionary movement.” This would include elected Republican officials and Supreme Court justices, aimed at depriving government of the ability to govern. But the individual they

Whack-a-Mole

REVIEW: ‘The Seventh Floor: A Novel’ by David McCloskey (Amazon) With his third novel, David McCloskey has established himself as one of the leading spy novelists now in the game. After seven years with the CIA, followed by a stint as a consultant at McKinsey, McCloskey has become a full-time writer. His first novel, Damascus

Quincy Jones Should Be Remembered for His Jazz, Not His Jackson

Quincy Jones, who died on November 3 aged 91, was the last major musician whose working life spanned the arc of 20th-century American music. Jones was born in 1933, only six years after Louis Armstrong recorded “Struttin’ With Some Barbeque,” one of the Hot Five sides that crystallized the centrality of the solo instrumentalist in

WATCH: The Media Ran an Autopsy on Why Kamala Lost. You’ll Never BELIEVE the Results!

(Spoiler: It’s ‘misogyny and racism.’) Following President-elect Donald Trump’s blowout victory, the mainstream media ran an autopsy on where the Kamala Harris campaign went wrong. The results? Liberal pundits agreed that Harris’s campaign was “flawlessly run” and that the real culprits are “misogyny and racism.” Political strategists placed blame on a “right-wing media ecosystem,” saying

J.D. Vance Was a Poster Boy for Yale Law School. The School Won’t Congratulate Him on His Victory.

The day after Hillary Clinton was nominated by the Democratic National Committee in 2016,  Yale Law School congratulated Clinton, class of 1973, “on her historic nomination for President of the United States.” Eight years later, it is refusing to congratulate J.D. Vance on his actual election. The school has made no statement about the vice

Uber Working With Police To Investigate Drivers’ Alleged Involvement in ‘Abhorrent’ Anti-Semitic Amsterdam Attacks

Uber denounced the “abhorrent” anti-Semitic attacks in Amsterdam and said it’s working with law enforcement to identify whether any of its rideshare drivers were involved in the violence, following calls from Jewish activists to boycott the company. “We were shocked and saddened to hear of the abhorrent violence in Amsterdam. While there were no reported