Trump Proves That Presidents Have Too Much Power Trump Proves That Presidents Have Too Much Power
The expansion of executive privilege under Bush and Obama gave their successor license he recklessly exploited.
Sep 12, 2022 / Chris Lehmann
The GOP Is Pretending It’s Not the Party of Trump The GOP Is Pretending It’s Not the Party of Trump
Republicans want to have it both ways, distancing themselves from the former president's scandals while carrying out his political agenda.
Sep 7, 2022 / Chris Lehmann
Democrats Need to Start Talking About Class Democrats Need to Start Talking About Class
With midterms on the horizon, Republicans are making cynical appeals to working Americans. We can’t afford to cede the territory.
Aug 31, 2022 / Chris Lehmann
How the “Brooks Brothers Riot” Set the Stage for Insurrection How the “Brooks Brothers Riot” Set the Stage for Insurrection
The post-election uprising in Miami-Dade County gives the lie to the depiction of the failed Trumpian coup as an isolated event.
Aug 4, 2022 / Chris Lehmann
To the Republic, for Which It Stands To the Republic, for Which It Stands
The broad Trumpian vow to “Make America Great Again” chimed in near-perfect unison with the cultural offensives of the Christian right.
May 17, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Chris Lehmann
Mr. Bright Side Mr. Bright Side
Trump’s Gospel of Positive Thinking
Oct 4, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Chris Lehmann
Beyond Belief Beyond Belief
Conservative religious thinkers and their intellectual crusades.
Feb 5, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Chris Lehmann
Great Perturbations: On George Packer Great Perturbations: On George Packer
The Unwinding is a fine-grained account of economic collapse that runs aground on causeless abstractions.
Sep 10, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Chris Lehmann
Young and the Restless: On Brigham Young Young and the Restless: On Brigham Young
How the American Moses became America’s first spiritual manager in the wilderness of Scripture-infused capitalism.
Nov 28, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Chris Lehmann
The Higher Bealism: The Moral Limits of Markets The Higher Bealism: The Moral Limits of Markets
Why are moral and political thinkers failing to engage with the true, dispiriting scale of market sovereignty?
Jun 5, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Chris Lehmann