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And then it keeps happening. Like a hole in the middle of
     the memory of a field. The interruption of it spreading, widening
out toward the edges. Or is it that the field, receptive,
     pours itself into it? Like a consummation. The way a fire

can realize by feeding. What knows a thing better than
    what consumed it? Like the deepest active black of the
cast iron pan. Constant reminder; omen of the stove. The dead
    center of an inhuman eye. Its iris is my living space; my entire life. Читать дальше...

First the National Review was against Trump. Then it was against anti-Trumpism. Then it was kind of for Trump and kind of against him: It published pieces making the case for voting for him in 2020, against voting for him in 2020, and for maybe voting against him in 2020. Now, as he prepares to run again, the magazine is once again pushing its own peculiar, half-baked brand of anti-Trumpism. Or perhaps we should understand this as a brand new mission: “post-Trumpism”—an attempt to rebrand a flailing... Читать дальше...

Attempting to defend Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, House Bill 1557, Christina Pushaw, the press secretary for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, accused the bill’s opponents of preying on children. “The bill that liberals inaccurately call ‘Don’t Say Gay’ would be more accurately described as an Anti-Grooming Bill,” Pushaw wrote on Twitter, ahead of a vote in the state Senate. If you are against the bill, she added, “you are probably a groomer.” Those opponents would include gay Florida state Representative Carlos Guillermo Smith... Читать дальше...

1. What Is Counter-Exceptionalism?

Bill O’Reilly leans in. “He’s a killer, though. Putin’s a killer,” he says. Donald Trump, then the president for less than a month and giving one of his first interviews in office, barely pauses. “A lotta killers, we got a lotta killers—what, you think our country’s so innocent?”

It was a moment for which Trump was roundly lambasted. How, politicians and media figures asked, can you equate America with Russia? How can you say that we are no different, that there is no moral gulf between us? Читать дальше...

Last Thursday night in the Navy Yard neighborhood of Washington, D.C., a few dozen Hill staffers, mostly in their twenties, wearing their finest business casual, stood around chatting about who worked for which lawmaker and complaining about niche annoyances like the timing of floor votes. When not running interference for their bosses, these indispensables of the nation’s capital can be found at networking events disguised as parties, like this gathering, or huddled around discounted beers at the cheapest happy hours throughout the city. Читать дальше...

One of the many questions that senators ask every Supreme Court nominee is whether they would support cameras in the courtroom. So far, none of them have said yes outright, and some who had hinted at support for it changed their minds after getting the job. David Souter famously told lawmakers in 1996 that “the day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it’s going to roll over my dead body.”

I’ve never received an eviction notice. These days, I shake uncontrollably every time I think of the tactile universe. It’s been

Civic republican political philosophy is sometimes equated with communitarianism, and while they are not precisely the same, they both have as their watchword the concept of “the common good” (the res publica). Republican philosophy was embraced by the Founders of the American republic as fervently as the individualistic liberalism of John Locke. When he visited America in the 1830s, Alexis de Tocqueville found both political traditions current in American society and ascribed the remarkable success... Читать дальше...

Even before the Federal Reserve announced a quarter-point interest-rate hike Wednesday, boosting interest rates for the first time since 2018, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said that wasn’t enough. Summers made this pronouncement in a Washington Post op-ed headlined “The Fed is charting a course to stagflation and recession.”