North Carolina is emphatically, undeniably, intensely purple -- and a new map could give Republicans 11 of our 14 House seats. Some democracy we have here. My newsletter >>> www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...

My reflection on all the president's flatterers -- and all their gooey hooey. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/o...

Most professors aren't unhinged. I swear! But Ginia Bellafante very smartly connects the dots of movies and TV series fixated on this new archetype, www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/s...

Is Trump's vanity an excessively chronicled distraction -- or the toxic root of almost all that's wrong with how he governs? Bret Stephens and I discuss, www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...

Not so long ago, I couldn't have imagined reading a sentence like this: "In the afternoon, officials confiscated the Pentagon press badges of hundreds of journalists, including mine." Great, sad, scary article: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Will chat with Rep. Ro Khanna at Duke on Mon., Nov. 10. If you're in or near the Raleigh-Durham area, please join us for this free, in-person-only event; the congressman is game for audience questions. Details, including registration: provost.duke.edu/independent-....

Since I entered academia, friends constantly ask about my students' POLITICS. But what's more striking is my students' HYDRATION. This is one soggy crew, as I explain in the final section of my NYTimes newsletter this week >>> www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...

This chewy postmortem on postmortems illustrates that two of the greatest biases in media aren't about left or right; they're about echoing the chorus of the moment and about finding a story and selling it boldly, no matter its actual subtlety. Worth reading >>> www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/o...