When lovers of freedom lament the dismal choice for president that confronts the American people, let’s be sure we appreciate how remarkably alike Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are. In 2008 Christopher Hitchens, who died in 2011, wrote an enlightening article in Slate about Hillary (and Bill) Clinton that is worth (re)reading today.
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John and I continue commentary and reading Rules for Radicals
A president calling reporters “treasonous” isn’t just a hot take, it’s a warning sign. Harrison Berger joins me to break down how that rhetoric is being used to police debate around the Iran war, and why it echoes years of reckless “traitor” accusations aimed at...
Trump comes back from Beijing claiming he got a major concession from Xi on Iran, but what happens when the key details are private, unverifiable, and packaged for headlines? We walk through the public messaging, the contradictions, and the incentives on both sides,...
