Sublime

The winners in Smart America have withdrawn from the national life of their fellow Americans. Christopher Lasch, writing in the early 1990s when this withdrawal was young, called it “the revolt of the elites.” Between meritocracy and democracy, it’s the first that dominates their waking hours, commands their unthinking devotion, and drives them, li

The quality of Free America’s leaders steadily deteriorated—falling from Reagan to Gingrich to Ted Cruz, from William F. Buckley to Ann Coulter to Sean Hannity—with no bottom.

Exactly one month after First Draft announces its initiative, President Obama advances the cause with a pitch at the White House Frontiers Conference, held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He blames a “wild, wild, west” media environment for destroying rational discourse online. “We are going to have to rebuild within this wild, wild we

One of the biggest—if not the biggest—obstacles to restricting suffrage is that the evangelical left views extending voting rights as their greatest moral victory and the basis of their identity as a movement.

Si on reprend le mood américain7, plusieurs épisodes de la vie politique de ce pays s’éclairent alors sous un autre jour. L’élection de Ronald Reagan a été très souvent interprétée comme le triomphe de la communication politique. De fait, cet ancien acteur de cinéma a initié une rupture dans la manière de mobiliser les médias télévisés, de se mettr

Here Kelly was borrowing a classic leftist technique: the demand for disavowal. If a given politician or a given political stance attracts the “wrong” type of audience, it’s presented as “problematic” on its face. This is the sophisticated version of saying the utterly unsophisticated “If he’s fer it, I’m agin’ it.” In a democracy every person’s vo

But Barack Obama’s presidency comes at a time when key factors conducive to transactional journalism converge in an explosive way. Obama is the first Democrat elected to the nation’s highest office since the invention of Facebook and Twitter, the first since the Internet became firmly established as a means for journalists and their interests to fr