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Freedom, Justice and McDonald's

Christmas Time and Regular Time

Debating the Realignment

Live Episode: Rebellion or Realignment?

The Protestant Deformation in America

Optimize Your Giving

Did Trump Win Over the Working Class For Good?

Provocation: The Frenzy and the Fury

The Future or Bust

Thou Hypocrites!

Provocation!

AMERICA'S QUARTER-LIFE CRISIS: Rebellion or Realignment?

Yes, the World Ended on November 5

Having Ridiculous Ideas Doesn't Make You a Bad Person

Varieties of State-Sponsored Death

Thriving in the Apocalypse

I gave him a single-word answer: "Repulsed."

Debate: What Politics Is Really About

Economic Populism

American Heretics and Liberal Neutrality

A Momentary Stay against Doomerism

Tech-Trad Synergy

The Player and the Referee

Peasants, the People and God

Faustian Bargain

The Restoration of Trump and the Last Man

The Crowd Watches the Vote

Democracy is on the Substack

Happiness and Misery in America

The Art of Hiking

Bonfire of the Vanities

You, the People

Is It Okay Not to Vote?

Debate: Should Americans Vote for the Lesser of Two Evils?

Francis Ford Coppola's Non-Meme-able Anti-Content

Provocation: Why Don't I Have Kids?

Happiness and Misery in America: Live Event in DC!

The Bomb

The Sublime Object of Our Terror

The Vineyard and the Meth Lab

Provocation: Why Don't I Have Kids?

It's OK to Suspend Your Judgment (But Not Forever)

Cyberspace and Megalopolis

Social Change Requires the Threat of Violence

The Passion of the Elites

In Praise of "Luxury Beliefs"

Why We Need Nightmares

A Crowded Theater Called America

No, Culture is Not Stuck

War in the Middle East, Again

Provocation: Morality, Democracy and the Middle East

Canceled Culture

Human Dignity and Beyond

Your Chance to Provoke Shadi!

Weekend Roundup

Debate: Conservatives and Equality

The Cynic and the Fool

Left Conservatism

Twin Peaks and the Divine

Back to the Future

The Comedy of the Commons

Our Top Podcast Highlights of the Summer

Why We Need Fight Clubs

What Is to Be Done?

Charles Taylor on the Need for Cosmic Connection

Pundit Don't Preach

It's Not Clear What Kamala Harris Believes. Does it Matter?

How Not to Waste an Opportunity

Embrace the Vibes!

Perchance to Dream

Far From the Male Reading Crowd

Ending Summer on Violence and Despair

Six Reasons Why Artists Should Avoid Politics

Crowd Control

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

Talk to Me Nicely

How to Think About Fallenness

The Artist and his Butcher

What Are Children For?

Another Long, Hot Summer

French Secularism is Dead

Babies and Reasons

America Last

Against Meta-Decadence

Truth and Vibes

Freddie deBoer on Democracy and the Democrats

Trump, the Magic Candidate

Wrestling with Apathy

Powerful Old Men

Weekend Roundup

Provocation: Beauty and Niceness in an Accidental World

A More (or Less) Perfect Union

Pictures of Violence

How Democracies Should Wage War

What is Forgiveness?

Introducing: Provocations

What does McDonald's Mean?

Kings, Laws, and God

Did the Supreme Court Just Subvert Our System of Government?

The Resilience of the American Experiment

Just Don’t Lie

The Problem(s) of Democracy

Who is Responsible for This?

Lockdown Nostalgia

Democracy is Anti-Intellectual

Post-Heroic, Late Imperial

The Joyful Podcast

Facts v. Values, Numbers v. Ideology

Giving Up is Good for You

Rock Stars and Intellectuals

Special Note to Readers

Our Partners

Our Origin Story

Phil Klay on Morality and War

Come Together!

(Why) Do We Love Violence (and Sex)?

Why Give a Damn?

Liberalism is not Neutral

Freedom from the Internet

What the Israelis are Thinking

Hell is Necessary

Martha Nussbaum on Justice for Animals

The Pursuit of Passion for its Own Sake

Matt Yglesias on How Gaza Scrambled Identity Politics

Samuel Moyn and Osita Nwanevu on Voters vs Judges

Columbia 1968 and 2024

On AI Priests

Protests and Solidarity

Wisdom of Crowds Live Show on May 2!

Kicking the Ladder

A Debate about American Power

The Contradictions of Javier Milei

The Art of Losing Well

In Search of New Political Ideas

Parenting *Is* the End of the World

The Importance of Questioning Everything

Parenthood at the End of the World

What are First Principles?

Violence at a Distance

How to Disagree Without Compromise

In Defense of the Online Debaters

The World According to Jordan Castro

The Adventure of Loneliness

Love is not Dopamine. Happiness is not Dopamine.

"Doing the Work" May Be Hazardous to Your Soul

Wisdom of Crowds Live Show on March 20!

Desire, Sadness, and the World

The Minor Joys of Chance Encounters

"More" is Less

The People v. the Oracle

The Lure of the Scam

Do You Know What You Want?

"I never thought I was the kind of person to fall for a scam"

The Map and the Territory

Do Androids Dream of Ethnic Cleansing?

The Magic of Madness

You Know I'm No Good

Empathy for the Devil

Beauty Is Real

Brass Knuckles and Winning

Is It Possible to be Both 'Pro-Israel' and 'Pro-Palestinian'?

Are We The Baddies?

How to Deter a Superpower

Apocalyptic Dread, Burnout, and a New Year

Claudine Gay and the Culture Wars