The weekly roundup of what we’ve done at Liberal Currents has strong criticism for antisemitism and some praise for anti-populism. Articles: “The Anti-Populism of ‘Digger, E ...

Bret Devereaux, historian and author of the blog A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, explains why we're all still obsessed ...

Jacob T. Levy is the Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory at McGill University.

You don’t have to like Iñárritu’s new film to appreciate its refusal to confuse the punishment of villains with the repair of the world.

The gist of it is as follows: In 2017, the Netherlands Defense Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD) flipped a Russian ...

Thomas E. Ricks is the author of 11 books and also the military history columnist for the New York Times Book Review. His next book is “Big Money, Small Town,” a novel about a town in the Maine woods ...

Elias Isquith is a writer and editor based in New York City. He writes Necessary Fictions, a newsletter about film and US politics, and is on Bluesky at @eliasisquith.blog.

Polling for the Ohio governor’s election has shown Democrat Amy Acton consistently a few points ahead of her GOP opponent ...

Ilhan Omar's residence is continuous with President Donald Trump's birther politics and immigration obsessions, but it also touches on elemental constitutional issues—similar to the issues that once ...

David Griscom is a writer, the author of The Myth of Red Texas, host of The Jacobin Show, and Texan. Today he joins Ryan and Adam to talk about the current race, Texas's surprising political history, ...

The Pax Sinica to which Xi Jinping aspires will be no imperialism-free paradise, but a world made safe for autocracy and domestic terror.

The problems caused by AI development are widespread and multiplying, but none involves a digital demon that kills us all.