The European Union has a marketing problem, but that’s not the real emergency. The real emergency is that half of Europe’s political class treats the Continue Reading
The Outrage Buffet Is Open, and America Has Gone Back for Fifths
Hatred is a contagion, but let’s not insult viruses. Viruses at least have the decency to mutate quietly in a Petri dish. American hatred straps on a Continue Reading
The Democracy Fainting Couch Rolls Out Again
Well, break out the smelling salts and emergency tote bags, because the democracy fainting couch has once again been rolled into the national living Continue Reading
California’s Compassion Slot Machine Keeps Paying the House
California has achieved something almost spiritual in its public policy: it can spend historic sums of money, produce visible collapse, and still Continue Reading
The Battlefield Is Not a Diversity Workshop
There was a stretch of time when the Pentagon seemed to believe war was, at bottom, a branding problem. Not a logistics problem. Not a training Continue Reading
America’s Arsonists Bought Ad Time
There was a time when riots were a civic catastrophe. Now they’re a content vertical. That’s the first thing that makes this story more relevant Continue Reading
When Principle Needs a Breathalyzer and Trump Still Passes the Iran Test
Here’s the part nobody wants to say out loud because it ruins the cocktail party. Iran did not become a threat to the United States the moment Donald Continue Reading
The Self-Righteous and the Restless Fists
The rotten miracle of modern public life is that people can act like a street gang and still think of themselves as the safety committee. That is Continue Reading
The Halo Is Just a Ring Light
Our public life is now run by the exact species of person who used to get shoved off the student council for being too obviously fake. Not too Continue Reading
Sermons From Behind the Bodyguard
There is no creature on Earth more comical than the modern respectable person calling power vulgar while enjoying the quiet luxury of being guarded by Continue Reading
Burning the Lifeboat to Boo the Captain
There is a species of American political actor who would oppose penicillin if Trump handed out the prescription. That is not principle. That is not Continue Reading
America Runs on Fraud and Calls It Growth
Here's the first rule of modern American economics: if you can light taxpayer money on fire and warm three adjacent zip codes, somebody in a navy suit Continue Reading