Daniel Bessner

A conversation about the afterlives of Cold War liberalism, which justified illiberal acts in the name of defending liberalism.

Rather than resisting authoritarianism, the courts have enabled Trump’s rise.

Donald Trump’s authoritarian second term has led critics to describe him as a fascist in the mold of Adolf Hitler.

If ordinary Americans know one critic of the American Empire, it’s almost certainly Chomsky.

Larry David is the last of his kind—and in several ways.

Film and television writers face an existential threat.

“The End of History?” was an announcement of victory. But a quarter-century later, its author remains unsure if liberalism truly won.

Real democratic participation in foreign policy is almost unimaginable today—but this wasn’t always the case.

For nearly a century, Americans have been throwing the term around—without agreeing what that means.

How the turn toward “precision” combat promoted endless war.

The cultural contradictions of Call of Duty.