Rauch said religion has merged with political and cultural forces, and this politicization has contributed to both the ...
Princeton Doubles Down on DEI Amid Nationwide Attacks,” the Princeton Alumni Weekly reported recently – and a few weeks later ...
Rare among critics of Christian conservatives, my friend Jonathan Rauch (who recently joined Carl Cannon on the RealClearPolitics podcast) cherishes American constitutional government and admires ...
Last Friday, in the Great Hall of the Justice Department, the president described his adversaries as “scum,” “savages,” and ...
Lutnick says Europe and Canada are being disrespectful and Trump is growing tired of it. “If you make him unhappy, he ...
Kill Switch
The phrase “kill switch” has been a hot topic in European security discussions lately, in fact, specifically with regard to ...
My Atlantic colleague Jonathan Rauch wrote to me that one thing that’s surprised him is, among Trump’s supporters, “the sheer energy that’s generated by transgression. The joy of breaking ...
I have a friend who worked in the first Trump administration who really admired the ancient virtue magnanimity (which is different than the modern definition, generosity). I thought that was odd ...
A widely read Atlantic article from last month by Jonathan Rauch gives a definition to the process that makes the most sense to me. He reaches back to German sociologist Max Weber who defined this ...
As Jonathan Rauch noted recently in The Atlantic, democracy is built upon institutions, agencies and Constitutions that transcend one person. But Trump practices “patrimonialism.” He acts as i ...