Senior Correspondent at Vox covering the crisis of global democracy. Author of The Reactionary Spirit, a book on that topic, and a '25-'26 distinguished visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House.
Trump's speech last night was a travesty, of course, but it was also incredibly weak. And that weakness is a sign of American democracy's underlying strength. www.vox.com/politics/495...
Trump’s election fraud speech was a weirdly good sign for American democracyTrump’s primetime speech accidentally exposed the limits of his campaign to undermine US elections.www.vox.comA week ago, the Indian government forced a streaming service to take down a controversial new movie. The saga exposed just how thoroughly Modi's authoritarian government has suppressed free speech in Bollywood — and how Trump is using similar tactics here www.vox.com/politics/495...
Modi’s government brought Bollywood to heel. Hollywood should pay attention.A censored Indian film shows how quickly creative freedom can buckle under political pressure.www.vox.comIn the Dungeon Crawler Carl books, there is a character called Uzi Jesus — a ripped, gun-toting Christ that represents alien invaders' attempt to make Earth culture look as despicable as possible
Right Wing WatchPastor Martin Sedra fumes that "America has created this gay version of Jesus Christ": "Jesus was not effeminate. Jesus was a bold lion. I always tell people Jesus was not a soft guy. He had six packs. He was the most ripped guy you'll ever meet."
"A third of Finland’s population is estimated to have died of starvation during a famine in the 1690s." humanprogress.org/the-grim-tru...
The Grim Truth About the “Good Old Days”humanprogress.orgRahm Emanuel's speech in Israel is getting less attention than it deserves. It shows just how far to the left the Democratic party has moved on the topic — and augurs a fundamental rupture in the US-Israel alliance if Dems win in 2028 www.vox.com/politics/494...
A new speech shows how Israel lost the Democratic partyRahm Emanuel and the death of the pro-Israel Democrat.www.vox.comI'm not talking about the Maine electorate. I'm talking about the following groups: 1) The consultants who recruited him and ignored red flags 2) The media figures who stanned him 3) The Substackers and think tankers who defended him against "smoothgroins" and HR ladies
Eoin HigginsHe won 72% of the primary vote, does this guy think 150k Maine Dems are “urbanites who hate their liberal neighbors” or is it possible that the message and politics had broad appeal
"Gambling has become a more common leisure activity than reading a book" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The End of Reading Is HereOptimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.www.theatlantic.com