Archive for June 2025

Talking about the bloody absurdity of any war is depressing. Yet, there is no way to talk about politics in the Middle East without confronting the hideous and horrifying reality of the war. It looks like the wasting away of peace in this region of the world is accompanied by a sense of impending catastrophe.…

While I am not a historical determinist, I believe that history moves in ways that are broadly dialectical. Political currents that traverse one direction often change course and move in an opposite one, often eluding precise predictions. Mid-twentieth-century fascism reflected what was arguably the nadir of conduct in the entire career of humankind. Auschwitz was…

To start at the beginning, in which all of Trump’s hatreds are harnessed and become the deeply sick raison d’etre of Republicans everywhere. Here, nothing needs to be added: everything that has to be known about them was vouchsafed to us this week by the worthless specimen of cowardice Jodi Ernst, who should be in…