Going back to last year, I had a feeling that the Zohran Mamdani-Jessica Tisch dynamic would never easily resolve itself. My ...

Like many in the literary world, I read, with great interest, Naomi Kanakia’s recent exegesis on the “little” magazines like the Partisan Review and their various descendants, including n+1, The Drift ...

A couple of days ago, a former mayoral candidate posted that Zohran Mamdani’s might be imploding. The Democrat, former City Comptroller Scott Stringer, was reacting to a photo on Twitter/X that showed ...

Come next year, Hakeem Jeffries, barring incredibly unforeseen circumstances, will be the speaker of the House of Representatives. This will make him highly influential and much more famous than he is ...

Where do you go in America today? Anywhere, of course, but the question seems harder to answer. What made this country great, and still does, is its vastness—the reservoir of languages, cultures, and ...

It can be true, simultaneously, that Donald Trump is dangerous and Donald Trump is weak. All American presidents, by the nature of the position, are dangerous. The powers of the office—the inherent ...

One of my contrarian views that aged well enough was my skepticism of both Donald Trump impeachments. I had no moral opposition to impeaching Trump in 2019 or 2021—if any president earned two ...

Not long ago, Abdul El-Sayed was asked about his decision to campaign with Kamala Harris in Michigan. As a progressive who had been critical of the party establishment, El-Sayed could have made an ...

Some of you might know I’m the editor-in-chief of The Metropolitan Review, one of the great young literary magazines in the country. I’ve got a great team with me, and they make the magic happen. On ...

In case you missed it, I appeared recently on The Hill’s “Rising” to talk about how Democrats lost the dissident vote. And if you are new here, my novel, Glass Century, is due out May 6. Please ...

Our Culture named my new novel, Colossus, as one of the most anticipated releases of the spring. You should anticipate it, and buy what Library Journal has called a “challenging portrait of a ...

I was struggling to remember what Barack Obama had done since he left the White House. To challenge myself, I decided not to look anything up and truly disgorge whatever images and ideas had been ...