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Atlantic writer, Yale faculty. Author of The Road to Character, The Social Animal, and Bobos in Paradise, How to Know a Person

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1Mar 13, '20I get the sense that this is not only the low point of the Trump presidency but the low point of the American presidency ever. Has any president ever been this overmatched by a cri62.4×072k12k248
3Feb 5, '20Instead of spending the past 3 years on Mueller and impeachment suppose Trump opponents had spent the time on an infrastructure bill or early childhood education? More good would h24.5×08.8k1.5k92
4Mar 26, '19Beto O’Rourke and John Brennan owe Donald Trump a public apology. If you call someone a traitor and it turns out you lacked the evidence for that charge, then the only decent thing14.7×06.7k1.7k70
5Oct 18, '19If it comes to Trump vs. Warren, the only plausible choice is Warren. Over the past month Trump has given us fresh reminders of the exceptional ways he corrupts American life. You’14.4×014k3.6k130
6Jun 4, '20I believe in democracy. I believe in a free press. I believe in open debate. I love it when my newspaper prints pieces I disagree with. It causes me to think.13.7×012k1.5k98
7Aug 14, '23The most important story about why Americans have become sad and alienated and rude, I believe, is also the simplest: We inhabit a society in which people are no longer trained in 12.3×2.4M2.4k561561
8Apr 2, '20The intellectual decline of the GOP is astonishing, especially when your remember how different it was just 15 or 20 years ago.12.2×08.9k2.8k321
9Jul 26, '19Waiters are 87% friendlier as they hand me the bill and I’m about to decide the tip amount than they are at any other point in the meal.9.9×04.5k29456
10Aug 26, '20Stop scoffing. Melania’s speech is at least relatively decent and humane.9.8×04k23236
11Nov 4, '20What a night. Usually when I’m up this late it’s because I’m listening to NBA Youngboy.9.5×09k2.7k279
12Apr 1, '19When I started covering politics I was struck by how often politicians made physical contact with voters and journalists. It wasn’t about sex. It was about connection. Joe Biden, w8.5×010k1.9k27
13Oct 23, '20Biden is best when he speaks from his moral core. Trump doesn’t have one. It’s evident.8.3×012k1.6k18
14Jul 2, '19I only wear New Balance because Nike was a goddess in a Greek culture that practiced slavery.7.9×08.8k1.6k70
15Mar 8, '19Sometimes you change your mind in ways you never could have imagined.7.6×05.5k2k527
16Aug 25, '20This convention is targeted to one voter: Donald Trump. The whole convention is to make his lonely soul feel affirmed.7.1×09.1k1.7k19
17Nov 4, '20Our job in the media is to capture reality so that when reality voices itself, like last night, people aren’t surprised. Pretty massive failure. We still are not good at capturing 7.1×06.1k767107
18Apr 18, '20If you lived your life on Twitter you would never know music existed.7.0×03.8k30462
19Jan 20, '19Yesterday I had one impression of the maga kids from Kentucky. Now after seeing more videos I have a different more complicated impression. Makes all the hot takes seem silly.7.0×08k1.4k29
20Aug 2, '23We in the educated class are always publicly speaking out for the marginalized, but somehow we always end up building systems that serve ourselves.6.5×1.3M1.4k311248
21Sep 30, '20I’m the most horrified I’ve been in my career as a political journalist and the most relieved. This election won’t be close. Have faith in the American people!6.5×07.6k1.2k55
22Jan 13, '22Today is the day for Biden to begin revamping his presidency in a more centrist direction. There’s no path forward for a leftish agenda.6.4×01.5k16644
23Jan 29, '21Readers, many of us got involved in the Black Lives Matter marches last summer. Do Black lives matter to you only when they serve your political purpose? Shouldn’t we be marching t6.2×01.6k25297
24Apr 30, '20A lot of young people are going to be jobless and school-less this fall. This is the perfect moment for a national service program.5.9×06k75835
25May 29, '20This has been one of the worst weeks of our collective lives: 100K dead, an economy still collapsing, racism, murder, conspiracy mongering, a president more contemptible by the day5.6×07.1k1.1k46
26Jun 4, '19Only 12 percent of Millennials call themselves consistently conservative or mostly conservative. This is the most important statistic in American politics right now.5.6×05.3k1.3k139
27Feb 28, '20I’ve just watched populism destroy traditional conservatism in the G.O.P. I’m here to tell you that Bernie Sanders is not a liberal Democrat. He’s what replaces liberal Democrats.5.5×03.6k793118
28Mar 1, '19This is how moral corrosion happens. Supporting Trump requires daily acts of moral distancing, a process that means that after a few months you are tolerant of any corruption. You 4.9×05k1.6k67
29Nov 1, '19Progressives: If Trump-style Republicans were trying to impeach a President Biden, Warren or Sanders, and there was evidence of guilt, would you vote to convict? Answer honestly.4.6×01.4k37116
30Dec 19, '21Did Joe Manchin really just cripple the Biden presidency and make a second Trump term much more likely? Really???4.4×03.9k36428
31Mar 18, '16No, Not Trump, Not Ever4.3×02.7k1.7k0
32Dec 8, '21I fell in love with conservatism as a young man. What the hell happened to it?4.3×01.7k340266
33Nov 29, '19It’s hard to run for national office from California or New York. The urban parts of those states are so unrepresentative you don’t understand what you’re about to face.4.2×01.5k30180
34Feb 26, '22Would you be Zelensky? Would I? What a high and heroic standard that guys has set for us in the years ahead.4.2×06.5k51927
35Aug 26, '18Some obits are reporting that John McCain was driven by “raw ambition.” In my experience he was driven by an inherited sense of honor and a ferocious love of country.4.2×06.1k7837
36Jan 1, '19When the indictments come down, Trump won’t play by the rules. He’ll seek to delegitimize those rules. He’ll seek to delegitimize our legal institutions. He’ll seek to destroy the 4.2×03.8k1.4k59
37Aug 21, '20Best Biden speech I’ve seen. Fascinating volleying between the personal and the political.4.0×06.1k57315
38Dec 15, '18Trump is like those French soldiers who celebrated their glorious early victories on the March to Moscow. Winter is coming.3.8×04.8k81516
39Jun 17, '19Moral formation is not like learning math. It’s not cumulative; it’s inverse. It’s through the sins and the ensuing repentance that moral formation happens. We try not to judge peo3.8×01.5k35966
40Nov 4, '20This is the nightmare scenario we were worried about.3.7×05k75527
41Dec 14, '20Mark Shields is stepping down from his weekly slot on the PBS Newshour. He’s the best colleague I’ve ever had in any job. Warm, wise, considerate, generous, a man of unimpeachable 3.6×05.3k27211
42Feb 9, '21Republicans have now flipped 15 Democratic House seats even with a losing candidate atop their ticket. Somehow it seems foolish to govern as if progressive views are all that matte3.5×04.4k52954
43Jun 28, '20“White Fragility may be the dumbest book ever written. It makes The Art of the Deal read like Anna Karenina.”3.4×03.9k708328
44Oct 11, '16Donald Trump’s Sad, Lonely Life3.3×02.3k1.3k0
45Jun 18, '22This was my attempt to capture one of the finest and beloved men I’ve ever known. We will miss him.3.2×04.5k51294
46Jul 16, '21Just saw a great t shirt worn by a young Black woman: “I am my ancestors’ wildest dreams.”3.1×05.3k24022
47Feb 25, '22This moment of heightened danger and crisis makes it even clearer that the No. 1 domestic priority for all Americans who care about democracy is to make sure Trump never sees the i3.0×01.8k30038
48Jul 24, '20Christopher Hitchens was one of the great essayists in America. He would be unemployable today because there was no set of priors he wasn’t willing to offend.2.9×01.8k460114
49Feb 10, '20The small detached nuclear family is great for the upper middle class. It’s been a disaster for almost everybody else.2.9×02.2k528381
50May 20, '18On Meet The Press I mentioned that school shooting rates have been plummeting since the 1990s, causing some outrage and shock on Twitter. Here’s a write up of the data. 4X as many 2.9×01.9k1.2k115
51Jul 12, '24When I was a young Reaganite I used to dread his public remarks because God knows what he would say. But his fundamental judgements were historically right. Same with Biden today.2.9×560k1.3k19769
52Feb 17, '20Interviewing people in Watts and Compton, Calif. Bernie has a ton of support in the black and Latino communities here. Biden has not been mentioned.2.8×03.6k45623
53Feb 13, '21McConnell is betting that Trumpism will fade without being pushed. That’s a foolish and unrealistic dream.2.6×03.7k40212
54Nov 6, '20I’m already enjoying using the past tense when I write about Donald Trump.2.5×03.9k2167
55Nov 20, '20The Trump administration is like the Covid pandemic. The end is in sight but the last chapter is just the worst.2.5×03.7k3886
56Apr 26, '20The polarization industry describes an America divided over the virus. That’s false. 98% of D’s and 82% of R’s support the social distancing regime. All things considered we’re qui2.4×02.9k66020
57Jan 31, '17The Republican Fausts2.4×01.5k1k0
58Feb 26, '19The problem with today’s left-wing and right-wing ideas is that they are both based on the fantasy that the other half of America can be conquered, and when it disappears we can ge2.4×02.2k56566
59May 16, '20One of the great problems of the moment is that morality has been replaced by politics—the language of sin, forgiveness and redemption by the language of power competition.2.4×02.8k50826
60Mar 5, '19The most important speech in American history. Can anybody think of a rival?2.3×02.8k40529
61Jan 10, '20“The anti-Trump echo chamber is becoming a mirror image of Trump himself — overwrought, uncalibrated and incapable of having an intelligent conversation about any complex policy pr2.2×01.8k41768
62Sep 18, '18Don’t make up your mind about Kavanaugh without reading this.2.1×01.8k83641
63May 7, '21We’re not asking you to storm the beaches of Iwo Jima; we’re asking you to walk into a damn CVS.2.1×02.6k52139
64Oct 11, '20I had to work harder on this than any other magazine piece I’ve written. But in the end it was among the most rewarding.2.1×01.9k429308
65Jan 20, '21This is once again a country that self confidently believes in itself.2.0×02.1k14312
66Jan 22, '19In this version you had a Native American man being swarmed by white (boo!), male (boo!), preppy (double boo!) Trump supporters (infinite boo!). If you are trying to rub the pleasu2.0×01.4k38846
67Feb 9, '16I Miss Barack Obama2.0×01.3k9880
68Nov 21, '21Steve and Jonah have been two of the bravest journalists during this whole mess. They’ve taken positions that carry real costs. Think about supporting @thedispatch.1.9×01.7k20738
69Feb 24, '22After apartheid, some South Africans told me financial sanctions were minimally effective but sports sanctions really worked. On top of everything else maybe we should ban Russian 1.9×02.5k33116
70Oct 30, '20Never in my life have I seen a candidate so confidently avoid wedge issues. Biden is instead running on the conviction that, despite it all, Americans deeply love their country, an1.8×02.3k31839
71May 16, '17When the world is led by a child1.8×01.4k7030
72Dec 18, '20I wrote a column about my friend.1.7×02.2k28654
73Dec 8, '17The Republican Party is doing harm to every cause it purports to serve. You don’t help your cause by wrapping your arms around an alleged sexual predator and a patriarchic bigot.1.7×01.4k6251
74Sep 19, '20I guess the next pandemic is a pandemic of hypocrisy.1.6×02.1k3335
75Jan 29, '21Many affluent kids have fled the public school disaster for private schools. It’s Black and brown kids who live in cities with progressive mayors and powerful unions, and those are1.6×01.5k34641
76Jun 20, '17On my list of reasons Donald J. Trump is unfit for the presidency, the Russia-collusion story ranks number 9711.5×01.3k4900
77Jan 9, '22Ari, this is inaccurate cynicism. I have never heard of one of my colleagues doing anything like what the Fox pundits did with Trump. Not even in the same universe.1.5×02.2k24211
78May 2, '18The Trump tax cuts seem to have worked better than many of us expected. Capital spending up 39 percent. Stock buybacks growing at a much slower pace.1.5×01.2k60211
79Oct 2, '20I pray for Donald and Melania Trump’s speedy recovery from this awful disease. I know we’re all united in this wish regardless of our political views.1.5×02k1723
80Feb 15, '21It’s a thrill to see this on Twitter! Irving Browning was my great uncle. Click the image. Hauntingly beautiful.1.4×02.3k12219
81Feb 16, '21McConnell must have anticipated Trump’s attack on him. He should have voted to convict. If you’re going to take Vienna you better damn well take Vienna.1.4×02.2k1604
82Jan 30, '19Fed-Exed the final hand edited manuscript of my next book to my publisher. Somebody at Fed-x sliced open the package and stole it, except for one chapter. Now I’m wondering: what’s1.4×02k1634
83May 10, '19One amendment to my column today. If Nadler believes the “constitutional crisis” is over Trump’s blanket refusal to cooperate with Congress (rather than the narrow subject of redac1.3×01.4k2662
84Dec 16, '20I just got off a call with the House and Senate members of the @NoLabelsOrg group who wrote bipartisan the COVID relief compromise. I have never seen so much cohesion and loyalty a1.3×01.9k11911
85Dec 16, '18Yes, sometimes even I get angry.1.3×01.3k27536
86Feb 15, '19This isn’t a state imof emergency. It’s a spoiled child awarding himself a participation trophy after he lost the game. It’s solely about Trumps need to tell himself he’s a winner 1.2×01.5k3125
87Nov 19, '21In elite institutions there is a minority who are progressive and intolerant. There is a large majority who are progressive and tolerant. Life is a lot more complicated and contest1.2×01.5k11751
88Sep 30, '20View post on X1.2×01.7k1063
89Jun 8, '18Charles Krauthammer is obviously brilliant, courageous and principled, but what leaps to mind is his boyish joy watching game after game at Nat’s Park. The sweetness of his heart m1.2×01.7k2032
90Jan 29, '21My core life lesson: take two trips. If you’re not sure you can carry it all, take two trips. I have nothing left to teach you.1.1×01.7k6011
91Nov 22, '19I don’t think it ever occurred to Trump or Giuliani that what they were doing with Ukraine was unethical. Life must be perpetually surprising when you have been denuded of all mora1.1×01.4k2157
92Mar 30, '20America is sadly divided between the 90 percent who are obsessed with Joe Exotic and the 10 percent who’ve never heard of him. We need to come together as a nation.1.1×01.4k1346
93Oct 8, '20The main takeaway. Attempts to argue that Biden is a tool of the hard left are failing. He’s created a center-left coalition well within the American mainstream.1.0×01.5k1914
94Apr 20, '21Walter Mondale was possibly the kindest and most humble politician I’ve known.1.0×01.6k1015
95Jan 26, '19If a non-fiction book doesn’t interest you in the first 10 pages it never will. Non fiction rarely starts out slow or dull and gets better.1.0×01.4k14116
96Dec 4, '20Is anybody else experiencing Covid lunch creep? I go to bed earlier, get up earlier and eat lunch earlier. Today I waited all the way until 9 am.1.0×01.4k275
97Jan 8, '21In my NYT column I argue that Wednesday may have broken the fever. The WSJ edit board just called on Trump to resign.1.0×01.4k1205
98Jun 27, '20Obviously, proudest moment of my life.0.9×01.6k327
99Apr 4, '21As a DC resident I’m too young to get the vaccine. It’s been a long time since I’ve been too young for anything.0.9×01.5k302
100Oct 15, '20Watching the night sky I can see Jupiter, Saturn and Mars all at once. According to my model, this means Biden wins by 7.7.0.8×01.3k750

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