Stopping Trump’s Coup
After a disastrous debate, we need leaders to insist that the republic and the people are bigger and more important than any president.
Winter 2024
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The Plutocracy Comes to Campus
When undergrads challenged a rich donor close to Donald Trump, his biggest defenders were their own university’s leaders.
Trump’s Nomination May Not Be the Worst of It
Republicans have locked down control of the House of Representatives for at least the coming decade.
Conservatives Have Only Themselves to Blame for Today’s Campus Wars
Conservatives have turned college students into isolated, heavily indebted consumers of career training.
The Ambiguities of Heroism
Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos, and Anthony Sadler had a remarkably high, democratic morale. But it will take more than heroes to overcome today’s political violence.
Reporting for the Republic
In 1920 the New Republic ran “A Test of the News,” a special supplement to the magazine (published soon after as the book Liberty and the News) by Walter Lippmann and Charles Merz showing that in the three and a …
With Friends Like These… Who Will Defend Liberal Education?
Like free markets and Christianity, liberal education in the United States has more noisy claimants than true friends. Lately, it’s conservatives who’ve been crying hosanna to the humanities and funding campus institutes that conscript classic texts into training future Platonic …
Social Conservatism Isn’t “White”
There they go again: Republican candidates are saying things and sending signals that show that racism remains widespread, routine, hideous—and sometimes even laughable, when it strains to deny its own existence. And, again, some of us white leftists and liberals …
Kissinger’s Diplomatic Review
Jim Sleeper: Kissinger?s Diplomatic Review
Markets, Media, and the Occupiers
Jim Sleeper: Markets, Media, and the Occupiers
It’s Not Just a Scandal, It’s a Syndrome
Jim Sleeper: The Murdoch Scandal Is Really a Syndrome
An Unlikely Pragmatist 
Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition by James T. Kloppenberg Princeton University Press, 2010, 296 pp. TOWARD THE end of James Kloppenberg’s Reading Obama, the author ponders an anecdote from the candidate’s speech on race in Philadelphia …
Stanley McChrystal’s War on Poverty
Jim Sleeper: McChrystal’s War on Poverty
The Day After: Don’t Gloat, Organize
Day After: J. Sleeper – Don’t Gloat, Organize
Things No One Talks About
J. Sleeper: Things No One Talks About
