Month: February 2024

Reality Is Just a Game Now

Scoring points, hunting for clues, building plotlines, revealing the Grand Narrative… Why are people acting like the national fracture is fun?

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reality-is-just-a-game-now

Can America Survive a Party of Saboteurs?

Republican cynicism seems to have no bottom.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/08/opinion/trump-republicans-border-ukraine.html?smid=em-share

Trump Came for Their Party but Took Over Their Souls

The defeat of the immigration-Ukraine-Israel package marks the end of the party of Eisenhower, Reagan and McCain.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/08/opinion/trump-republicans-immigration.html?smid=em-share

Is Trump’s MAGA ‘Superpower’ Actually His Kryptonite?

Biden isn’t the only one who wants to know.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/07/opinion/biden-trump-rematch.html?smid=em-share

The Varieties of Anti-Natalism — and the Roots of a Demographic Crisis

From overpopulation fears to careful bourgeois life scripts.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/opinion/anti-natalism.html?smid=em-share

A Big Strategic Realignment in the Middle East May Be Coming

Thomas L. Friedman on what he hopes a “Biden Doctrine” for the region will look like.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/opinion/biden-doctrine-mideast-realignment.html?bgrp=a&smid=em-share