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Dec 1, 2025
When Abraham Lincoln issued his Thanksgiving proclamation in 1863, he offered the previously regional holiday as a feast of national gratitude in counterpoint to the ongoing...
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Sep 10, 2025
On Wednesday night, I grabbed dinner at the McDonald’s on the corner of New York Avenue and 13th Street in Washington, DC. I was in town for the National Conservatism...
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Aug 4, 2025
In Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus describes Irish art as “the cracked looking-glass of a servant,” and Matthew Gasda offers a cracked looking-glass for the mindscape...
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Jun 4, 2025
The reset has been reset. After delivering a shock to the global trade system with “Liberation Day,” the Trump administration has now put many of these newly imposed...
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Apr 15, 2025
Maybe the greatest trick the neoliberal ever pulled was convincing the world that his politics were an extension of post-World War II policy. By the conventional narrative,...
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Mar 19, 2025
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent caused heads to explode across the Beltway when he declared in a recent speech to the Economic Club of New York that “access to...
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Feb 7, 2025
I still remember really seeing John Constable’s painting The Hay Wain for the first time. After many years of viewing it through the veil of a screen or a book, I was...
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Jan 20, 2025
A performatively long workweek is one of the major status signals in the contemporary American meritocracy—whether it’s crushing hours as a medical resident, BigLaw...
Dec 1, 2025When Abraham Lincoln issued his Thanksgiving proclamation in 1863, he offered the previously regional holiday as a feast of national gratitude in counterpoint to the ongoing...
Sep 10, 2025On Wednesday night, I grabbed dinner at the McDonald’s on the corner of New York Avenue and 13th Street in Washington, DC. I was in town for the National Conservatism...
Aug 4, 2025In Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus describes Irish art as “the cracked looking-glass of a servant,” and Matthew Gasda offers a cracked looking-glass for the mindscape...
Jun 4, 2025The reset has been reset. After delivering a shock to the global trade system with “Liberation Day,” the Trump administration has now put many of these newly imposed...
Apr 15, 2025Maybe the greatest trick the neoliberal ever pulled was convincing the world that his politics were an extension of post-World War II policy. By the conventional narrative,...
Mar 19, 2025U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent caused heads to explode across the Beltway when he declared in a recent speech to the Economic Club of New York that “access to...
Feb 7, 2025I still remember really seeing John Constable’s painting The Hay Wain for the first time. After many years of viewing it through the veil of a screen or a book, I was...
Jan 20, 2025A performatively long workweek is one of the major status signals in the contemporary American meritocracy—whether it’s crushing hours as a medical resident, BigLaw...