The first step toward a rigorous analysis of media and populism is to provincialize the influence of charismatic leaders like…
Channeling populism
truth
What are oaths good for?
As American statesmen and a US Supreme Court Justice in the ’90s were figuring out what to do with their…
Sworn testimony and brittle truths
If the point of an oath is to swear truth, what does it mean if the truth is stacked against…
Against relevance
The oath used to mean something. It used to ensure the rectitude of our politics and the integrity of our…
The shapeless things to come
Can fiction offer a viable, even preferable alternative to history? Good novelists and historians both recognize the objective limits of…
Understanding the president’s reality: Our unconscious, not his
The matter of the love-hate relationship between psychoanalysis and public life has an unexpected link to the complexities of secularism…