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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I wrote several thousand words on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez potentially running for president and a few readers were surprised I specifically didn’t reference the fact that she’d be vying to become the ...

If you can, please support my work! Subscriptions to this Substack, Political Currents, are just $60 for the year and $8 per month. That’s a nice little deal. Please keep this engine running. I can’t ...

Not long ago, Matthew Schmitz, the editor of Compact, posted about a new podcast on the country star Ella Langley. Introducing the episode, Schmitz wrote that Langley’s hit song, “Choosin’ Texas”, ...