Is Religion Primarily Preaching Or Practice?
Damon Linker’s recent column for The Week hits one of my favorite topics: how do you define religion? He starts off by taking a whack at what sounds like a silly piece in The New York Times: One of Leo...
View ArticleSelf Control, Self Knowledge, and Self Mastery
Damon Linker has a piece up at The Week that – uncharacteristically for him – is all about . . . him. And, more specifically, his nine-year exploration of self through psychodynamic psychotherapy: Most...
View ArticleWhat I’m Hoping For Out Of New Hampshire
Cards on the table: I’m not going to be supporting the Republican nominee in November. I might not be supporting the Democratic nominee either. I’m not a Hillary hater, but I never liked her husband...
View ArticleTed’s the Ticket
My latest column at The Week is all about how Ted Cruz is going to be Veep. If Trump’s the nominee: Trump is clearly going to get the nomination, who might carry on the fight to Cleveland for some...
View ArticleCan Anti-Discrimination Be More Discriminating?
Damon Linker would like it to be. For far too many contemporary liberals . . . informal, grassroots pressure from civil society never seems to be good enough. Too lazy and impatient to do the hard work...
View ArticleBrexit and the Wailing of the Anglo-American Commentariat
Damon Linker has a corker of a column up today about the hysterical reaction to Britain’s vote to leave the EU: It’s perfectly reasonable to worry about what will happen after Britain’s historic vote...
View ArticleAre Religious Voters Even Backing Trump?
Damon Linker asks a question in his column today at The Week: The evangelical embrace of Trump (after considerable early skepticism about his bid for the White House) is remarkable for several reasons....
View ArticleElection End-Game — And Post-Season Predictions
I watched the final debate, and my impression was that Trump did fairly well when he got to be an angry critic of the bipartisan consensus, and did terribly when he had to advance any kind of...
View ArticleDon’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow
My latest column at The Week is a warning to the Democrats not to be tempted to pursue a “do-over” of the 2016 election. Restorationism, I point, is not what brought the Republicans roaring back in...
View ArticleNeo-Reactionaries in the West Wing
So, apparently, Steve Bannon appreciates Mencius Moldbug, leading neo-reactionary. I said what I had to say about Moldbug and his ilk four years ago, here. I flatter myself to think that I took him...
View ArticleThe Deep State Gets a Scalp
Michael Flynn was a seriously dangerous man, and I am very relieved that he will no longer be in a position of power. But Damon Linker is absolutely right that the way he was brought down should worry...
View ArticleThe “Paradox” of Transnational Nationalism
Damon Linker has a good column in The Week about the launch of American Affairs, a new journal which, in Linker’s words, aims to “explore the meaning and shape of American nationalism in the age of...
View ArticleThe Politics of the AHCA
Damon Linker and I each have columns at The Week today about the politics of the AHCA. Linker sees a great opportunity for the Democrats that he fears they will blow: If the Democrats can’t transform...
View ArticleIndependence Day Movies
Damon Linker has a list of five movies to watch this Independence Day: I love my country. But I want to love it truthfully, thoughtfully — for what it is, in all of its moral and historical complexity,...
View ArticleTrumpism and the Politics of Distrust
Damon Linker’s latest column for The Week is a lament for Trump’s absurdly high approval rating: President Trump’s approval rating has sunk to historic lows. No president has hit an average of 38...
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