The Black Core of the Culture War

By Joshua Adams, The Nation Something happened to Black discourse on the way to the backlash—and that’s no joke. US politics has been deluged by heated debates surrounding cancel culture, “wokeness,” and critical race theory. What do these three topics have in common? Some would say that they […]

The New Dark Ages

By Joel Kotkin If ignorance is bliss, the Western world should be ecstatic. Even as colleges churn out degrees and collect fees, and technology makes information instantly accessible, the basic level of literacy, as measured by such things as reading books and acquainting oneself with the past, is […]

Our Neo-Feudal Future

By Joel Kotkin America has only a limited feudal past, the plantation aristocracy of the antebellum South and the enormous class chasms of the Gilded Age being pretty much our only examples. Yet today—after decades of social mobility, a digital revolution that was supposed to empower individuals everywhere, […]

Joe Manchin for President

By Ryan Grim, The Intercept Lyndon B. Johnson, a giant of American politics, recognized a political opportunity and reoriented. Manchin would rather be the man riding the bomb to the ground. When Lyndon B. Johnson took over leadership of the Senate Democratic caucus in the early 1950s, anybody […]

The delusion of a post-Trump GOP

By Joel Mathis, The Week Sen. Susan Collins is nothing if not an optimist. A year after former President Donald Trump left the White House, the Maine Republican apparently still believes better times are ahead for her party — a moment when Trump’s rabble-rousing, anti-democratic influence will recede, […]

COVID is another forever war

By Samuel Goldman The Week There’s no exit strategy when the enemy is already among us. It’s déjà vu all over again. First, the weeks of official denial. Then bad news becomes impossible to ignore, prompting a shift in policy. The new policy offers an increase in resources […]

Boomers, Mexicans, and Trucking

By Peter Zeihan on December 22, 2021 Demographics are at the core of what we do here at Zeihan on Geopolitics. More than just a count of population, demographic data–often expressed as a pyramid-shaped graph–can deliver a wealth of information about a society. Is the country in question rapidly […]