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What Awaits Us in the Political Seasons Ahead?
Making predictions is hard, especially about the future—but I really do think JD Vance’s main competitor for the 2028 GOP nomination is going to be…
 • Damon Linker
2025: Slouching Toward Something Worse
An admittedly gloomy look back at a low, dishonest year in American politics
 • Damon Linker
Norman Podhoretz's Legacy
The first-generation neoconservative intellectual died last week at 95 years old. I wrote about him for The New York Times back in 2010
 • Damon Linker
My Near-Miss Scam Experience
It began with a strangely specific phone call ...
 • Damon Linker
Living in Carl Schmitt’s World
If we’re not careful, we could end up vindicating the prophet of friend vs. enemy politics
 • Damon Linker
My Top Ten Songs of 2025
Four women and six men who delighted my ear over the past twelve months
 • Damon Linker
How Trump Could Win by Losing on Birthright Citizenship
The Supreme Court might open a path to revising our understanding of the 14th Amendment while precluding the president from codifying it by executive…
 • Damon Linker
Stuck in the Populist Present
It’s clear how we got into it, but not at all clear how we break out
 • Damon Linker
Trump’s Lawless, Aimless Foreign Policy
The 47th president is a bully unbound
 • Damon Linker

November 2025

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