I’ve been reading some articles about today’s Day Without A Woman strike actions, and they’ve coalesced around a familiar theme: the question of privilege. Which women can take a day off of work? When a…

There are two kinds of philosophy: the kind that says nothing at all as floridly as possible, and the kind that says extremely little rather more slowly than can be plausibly endured. Addendum: The kind…

You may have recently seen advertisements for the new Matt Damon film, The Great Wall. The premise of this movie is that the Great Wall of China was built not to defend against the Mongols…

A philosopher is one who always swipes right on the truth.

What do you call the members of Congress who vote as a bloc based on their shared interest in partying? The Raucous Caucus!

His perjurious claim was, weirdly, an unforced error. Sen. Franken asked him “are you aware of anyone in the campaign who had contact with Russian officials?” And Sessions was like “well, I certainly didn’t! Haha.”…

This is a great article, about how country songs and a certain flavor of political discourse celebrate small-town America for virtues that are neither distinctively small-town, nor distinctively American, and the way that this praise…

Here’s the thing that gets me about the electoral college.   In the counterfactual universe where the US never had the electoral college—or, e.g., where it was abolished in the 20s or what have you—practically…

In large part, Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 elections was a triumph of rhetoric. As a writer, this pains me to admit. I believe—both as a matter of professional pride and personal conviction—that the…

The true sin of Congressional Republicans vis-a-vis Trump is neither cowardice nor capitulation, but collaboration. We need words that reflect that.