Liberalism let me change my mind
How climate change destroyed my ideology
 • John Robert Thomason
The book is not about you
Some readers want every protagonist to be a version of themselves. They’re missing one of fiction’s greatest pleasures.
 • Jerusalem Demsas
MAGA’s Talarico conspiracy theory has no “off” switch
The American right’s epistemic closure is a thing to behold
 • Jeremiah Johnson
Trump’s student loan rule doesn’t go far enough
Arbitrary degree requirements devalue higher education
 • Kelsey Piper
The fox in liberalism’s henhouse
Critical race theory and the identity left presented themselves as updated anti-racism, but underneath the jargon was a clean break with liberal…
 • Matthew Yglesias
Marco Rubio flunks Western Civ
Chris, ten, dom?
 • Jerusalem Demsas and Maibritt Henkel
Let them have slop
Also: Girl Draco Malfoy and more on the clipping economy
 • Jeremiah Johnson
The MAGA realignment realigns
The numbers behind the Trump coalition’s crackup
 • Lakshya Jain
What if dictators never died?
I don't want to live forever but I'll take 150 years
 • Jerusalem Demsas
The nightmare before progress
Every technology is briefly a catastrophe
 • Derek Thompson
You don’t need to hate people to save the planet
Condoms not clean power
 • Jerusalem Demsas
The selfish war doctrine
MAGA loves war
 • Jeremiah Johnson
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