When I’m in my more optimistic moments, I think we’ll look back at last year as the high-water mark of Trumpism, when the combination of arrogance after Trump’s victory and the inherent authoritarianism of the Trumpist project led to a unique period of state violence and legal corruption.
"In their arrogance, Trump and Netanyahu defied their predecessors in all the worst ways, and now they court a profound defeat when, not long ago, a meaningful victory, however partial, was well within their grasp." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/o...
"When I was in college I learned about the great man theory of history. I didn’t quite buy it.
And now, thanks to President Trump, I’d like to modify my objections." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/o...
Absolutely the worst thing about being a parent right now
"When I was in college I learned about the great man theory of history. I didn’t quite buy it.
And now, thanks to President Trump, I’d like to modify my objections." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/o...
Doomerism is indispensable to Christian nationalists, because it is only the downfall of democracy that makes the patriarchy palatable. But when you impose patriarchy back onto a society that has already embraced liberalism, you mainly remind people of why they chose liberalism in the first place.
"At the moment, the United States is negotiating with a regime that President Trump claimed we had already changed, to open a strait that was supposed to be open last month, and to end a nuclear program that we said we had obliterated."
No, things are not going well. Here's why:
Fascism on the right. Communism on the left. Ancient antisemitic conspiracies seemingly everywhere. Tariffs. War in Europe. Gilded Age corruption. So many bad ideas re-emerging all at once.
Why? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/o...
