Archive - The Argument

Voters care about democracy. They just can’t agree on what it means.

How Jan. 6 stopped mattering

10 hrs ago • Carroll Doherty

The anti-socialists who love to social engineer

Central planning, with helicopters

Jan 5 • Jerusalem Demsas

The culture war is a symptom

The “post-material” story is wrong. Material conditions are behind the shift to the right.

Jan 2 • Maia Mindel

Happy New Year!

Holiday mail from The Argument

Jan 1 • Jerusalem Demsas

December 2025

Are children people?

Liberalism doesn't know what to do with kids.

Dec 31, 2025 • Jerusalem Demsas

Some of you are lying about reading

How one polling decision uncovered a lot of untruths

Dec 30, 2025 • Lakshya Jain

AI predictions for 2026: The flood is coming

The digital world will be transformed. Your day-to-day life will be basically the same.

Dec 29, 2025 • Kelsey Piper

Warning: This is an extremely wonky article about polling

An update on our methodology

Dec 26, 2025 • Lakshya Jain

Coping with Christmas

Christmas is alienating and Hanukkah is shallow. What’s a Jew to do?

Dec 25, 2025 • Eli Richman

How I fell into education reporting

I knew nothing about education. I think that helped.

Dec 24, 2025 • Kelsey Piper

The NIMBY Christmas cinematic universe

Hallmark movies as anti-housing propaganda

Dec 23, 2025 • Jerusalem Demsas

14 books The Argument thinks you should read

Besides Abundance

Dec 22, 2025 • Jerusalem Demsas

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