Election
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America’s Impotent Elite December 09, 2024
Has the celebrity era in American politics come to a close?This might seem like a peculiar question to ask in the wake of Donald Trump’s second presidential victory. Here he comes, again, the faded reality TV star-turned-world-historical disruptor, a...
Rude Awokenings December 09, 2024
The 2024 election was a repudiation, among other things, of the secular theology sometimes known as the Great Awokening. It is that secular form of Calvinism which insisted that America exists in a constant state of oppression, that America is define...
The Best Books of 2024 December 09, 2024
The second half of an election year can be a fraught one for books. Publishers tend to front-load their most interesting titles away from the election to try to keep them from being swallowed up by politics come the fall. After an election, books can...
Decline of Evangelicalism Helped Elect Trump December 09, 2024
A whopping 80% of evangelicals voted for President-elect Donald Trump in 2024. But behind that headline number, the dramatic fall in these Christian’s cultural influence played a much more profound role in Trump’s victories than evangelical voters di...
Martha Stewart’s Hors d’Oeuvres Handbook December 06, 2024
On Election Night, I stayed up late with my dog. We lay on the couch together. He napped. I tried to avoid checking the stupid New York Times needle every 10 seconds by reading scholarly articles about the meaning of Martha Stewart. The deadline for ...
Break the Sex Strike December 03, 2024
In the wake of Donald Trump’s re-election, American women horrified by the prospect of lost reproductive rights and the apparent triumph of hegemonic masculinity have taken to social media to announce their intention to swear off men. “All I have to ...
The Election Story Nobody Is Talking About November 28, 2024
Last year, I published a book that diagnosed a major problem in society, and offered a solution. The problem is growing numbers of young women choosing to forgo or delay marriage and motherhood, in favor of “living their best lives” as atomized caree...
The Only Thing Men Are Allowed to Be November 27, 2024
Hello and welcome to Many Such Cases.I’ve been firing off essay after essay on here with more to come, and it has been paying off. I am learning, for better or worse, that conversations about the animosity between genders right now are resonating wit...
Where Trump’s Washington Will Actually Be Hanging Out November 27, 2024
Where will conservatives and Donald Trump’s disciples spend their non-working hours in DC for the president-elect’s term? The Washingtonian provided a list by Jessica Sidman last week, but by Cockburn’s estimation, it’s not totally over the target....
The New Yorker’s Cavalcade of Ignorance November 27, 2024
How honest are we about our ignorance? How honest do we want to be? In answer to that eternal question, which is—or should be—of particular interest to reporters, the 20-page, 12-essay onslaught of postelection “dispatches” that dominates the latest ...
America’s Literacy Crisis Isn’t What You Think November 26, 2024
“Kids can’t read anymore.”We heard this refrain earlier this month, when some connected a decline in reading among young people, as well as a shift toward getting news and information from short-form video, with the recent presidential election victo...
The Nature of all Homecomings November 26, 2024
It was the evening after Election Day and I was speed-walking—while sedated— through JFK to catch a plane to San Francisco. Speedwalking while sedated is comically disorienting; I felt like one of those cartoon characters whose bottom half is a spinn...
Is The Woke Era Really Over? November 25, 2024
Depending on what kind of echo chamber you hang out in, the victory cries of the anti-woke crowd have been reverberating at increasing volume. And why not? The trouncing of Democrats on November 5 and the decisive resurrection of Donald Trump has bee...
American Literature in the Trump Years November 25, 2024
Washington Post critic Michael Dirda is depressed. After the election, he couldn’t understand “how to live in a nation governed and controlled by people that even Ayn Rand, let alone Edmund Burke, would despise.”To cope, Dirda recommends literature: ...
What Working-Class Voters Wanted November 25, 2024
At the end of the presidential campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris and her surrogates placed a bet on a hard-edged closing argument: that Donald Trump is a fascist and friend of dictators. She offered herself as the alternative, a messenger of hop...
An Unscientific American November 22, 2024
The day after the 2024 election, journalist Paul D. Thacker posted on his X account a series of expletive-filled posts from Laura Helmuth’s Bluesky account, in which she apologised “to younger voters that my Gen X is so full of fucking fascists,” upb...
A Novel of India’s Identity Crisis November 22, 2024
In 2011, an anti-corruption activist began a hunger strike in Delhi, inspiring protests all over the country to pressure the central government into accountability. The following year, a twenty-three-year-old woman was raped and murdered by several m...
Why RealClear Needs Its Readers November 22, 2024
Dear RealClear Reader,This is RealClearPolitics’ seventh presidential election. More than two decades ago, RCP set out to provide one-stop shopping for those who care about campaigns, elections, and governance.Fulfilling this mission means showcasing...
The Guardian’s Retreat from the Battlefield of Ideas November 21, 2024
It was quite the flounce. “This is something we have been considering for a while,” The Guardian intoned with the gravity of an Old Testament prophet as it declared in an editorial that the organization would no longer post on X. “The U.S. presidenti...
No Expectations November 21, 2024
When I read Emily Witt’s new memoir, Health and Safety, earlier this year, the sections I found the most striking weren’t the ones featuring big ideas about psychedelic drugs, Brooklyn’s underground party culture or Witt’s own second thoughts about j...
The 10 Best Podcasts of 2024 November 21, 2024
In 2024, podcasts eclipsed traditional media outlets in their influence over the U.S. election as certain shows with massive audiences managed to score interviews with sought-after subjects trying to widen their reach....
Our Countercultural Revolution November 20, 2024
Some presidential elections are decided by tactical moves: a stronger ground game to get out the vote, for example, or by superior media messaging. Donald Trump’s sweeping victory over Kamala Harris was none of those things. It was strategic and epoc...
The Case of Justine Bateman November 19, 2024
Three days after the election, Justine Bateman, the former Family Ties star, catapulted herself into the political muck with a tweetstorm to her 140,000 followers that began: “Decompressing from walking on eggshells for the past four years.” ...
Why Trump Should Watch 'Reagan' November 19, 2024
President-elect (or should we say, President-elected-again) Donald Trump is not known for being much of a reader. So it is doubtful he is preparing for his second term by reading biographies of his presidential predecessors. But as he embarks, there ...
Statistical Questions About the Iowa Poll November 19, 2024
The presidential election is now (thankfully) over, with Donald Trump winning a solid victory over Vice President Harris both in the popular vote (51 percent to 48 percent) and in the Electoral College (312 to 226). The various pollsters did their us...
