Selected Writings

What President Trump Learned from William F. Buckley
New York Times, June 1, 2025
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William F. Buckley Debates James Baldwin
Atlantic, May 20, 2025
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The True Meaning of the January 6, 2021, Attack on the U.S. Capitol
Washington Post, December 10, 2021
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The New American Civil War
Prospect, October 2, 2020
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The Future of Trumpism
Time, October 11, 2018
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The GOP’s Tangled History on Race
New Republic, February 9, 2013
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Congress and Partisanship
New Yorker, January 1, 2015
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America on the Eve of Trump’s First Victory
New Yorker, November 24, 2016
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Who Are the “Reform Conservatives“?
New York Times Magazine, July 6, 2014
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Neoconservatives, “Weapons of Mass Destruction,” and Iraq
Vanity Fair, July 2003
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The CIA and the Middle East
Vanity Fair, January 2002
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Death and Ayn Rand at Hillsdale College
Vanity Fair, March 2000
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