The Very American Roots of Trumpism The historian Steven Hahn puts Trumpism in the context of America’s long history of illiberalism.Listen · 1 hr 13 minThis is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the …
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After Pope Francis: A Round Table With David French
Three religious thinkers on the state of Catholicism.
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Gov. Josh Shapiro: Finding Moral Clarity After an Arsonist’s Attack
I woke up to yelling in the hallway. A few seconds later, there was a bang on the door. It was just after 2 a.m., and a state trooper in the hallway of our private living quarters at the governor’s residence said there was a fire in the building. We …
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Mexico Is Becoming a Beacon
This essay is part of The Great Migration, a series by Lydia Polgreen exploring how people are moving around the world today. We know one type of migration well. It’s millions of people from poorer countries traveling mostly to wealthy countries …
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Trump Wants You to Think Resistance Is Futile. It Is Not.
The American constitutional system is built on the theory that the self-interest of lawmakers can be as much of a defense against tyranny as any given law or institution. As James Madison wrote in Federalist 51, “The provision for defense must in …
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What Happened to the Francis Revolution?
How will history judge Pope Francis’ legacy? It seems reasonable to predict that for many progressive Catholics and others who hoped he would prove to be a revolutionary, his papacy will be remembered as a disappointment. Although Francis …
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The Face-Plant President
Harold Macmillan, the midcentury British prime minister, supposedly said that what statesmen feared most were “events, dear boy, events.” Misfortunes happen: a natural disaster, a terrorist attack, a foreign crisis. Political leaders are judged by …
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My Research Under Trump Started Unraveling With a Text That Read, ‘Call Me’
It started with a text in late January: “Call me.” I was in the Sonoran Desert, fleeing the Pacific Northwest’s winter gloom, and I pulled into a gas station to make the call. “All work on the National Nature Assessment is to stop,” a Trump White …
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Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf
Imagine my surprise when in the spring of 1939 a letter arrived at my house inviting me to dinner at the Old Chancellery with the world’s most reviled man, Adolf Hitler. I had been a vocal critic of his on the radio from the beginning, pretty much …
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