


How to Think About Reparations for American Slavery

How Not to Lose Your Tenured Job

Abolish the House of Representatives

Another Forever War?

Trump, DeSantis, and Kayfabe

What Americans Lost When We Abandoned the Secret Ballot

The Executioner’s Face Is Always Well-Hidden

Stay Out of Kenosha

The War on Coronavirus Is Too Important to Be Left to the Scientists
Showdown at Fort Miamis
How to Lose to Bernie

Lincoln Enough

L’etat C’est Nous

Shallow Politics and Deep Politics
In January, three new telegenic, outspoken, and self-proclaimed “progressive” congresswomen took their seats: Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). Omar, a […]

The One-Two Punch to Knock Out Electoral Democracy
If you thought, or hoped, that the brave (or nobly self-interested) Democratic Governor of Nevada, Steve Sisolak had done in the push for a National […]

The Hour of Avigdor
The connections between America and Israel are deep: grounded on religious cultural, and political ties that go well back before Israel’s founding. What’s more, Prime […]

Out of Syria
Wednesday afternoon Israel time I was outlining with my collaborator Yoav Kapshuk our paper on the meaning of the Syrian civil war and its resolution […]

Starbucks Socialism
For decades, my parents have frequented one “Bamboo Gardens,” a vegetarian Chinese restaurant in possession of that rare treasure in the neighborhood of Seattle Center: […]
Packing and Unpacking the Court
In response to President Trump being called upon, once again, to exercise his constitutional power to fill a seat on the Supreme Court, Democrats broke […]