week of September 8, 2025

How Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs

via Anil Dash Anil Dash comes out swinging here, and he’s got a point. Cook made a mealy-mouthed entreaty to Donald Trump, slathering him with compliments that were as numerous as they were false, and then used his sweaty palms to assemble a ghastly glass-and-gold trophy for a room full of press cameras. It is, […]

week of July 15, 2024

#37: A Historical Turn

This week feels like echoes of different historical moments. But which one it ends up being is going to be important as we look forward.

week of February 5, 2024

Paranoia ahead of revolution

The French Revolution, with its ideological rigidity and conspiracy theories, mirrors today’s political climate where politicians dismiss opposition without proper scrutiny.

week of March 1, 2021

A New Conservatism | Foreign Affairs

In the wake of Trump’s defeat, analysts have pondered whether his brand of populism might represent the conservative future. But this misunderstands his role. There is no discernible Trumpism independent of Trump himself. Writing in Foreign Affairs, former Romney advisor Oren Cass offers an alternative view on the future of conservatism, one that I don’t […]