Hannah Gais

When Charles Murray took the podium at Columbia University last week, one thing became clear: here was a man used to denying his bedfellows. You would think that the author responsible for The Bell Curve—the shoddiest piece of pseudoscience to appear in the ...

Welcome to This American Carnage, your weekly slice of life from the country of Trump. Trump’s rise has been described as “anti-intellectual” in nature, but that hasn’t stopped a new intellectual movement from feeding off his momentum. Enter American Affairs, a ...

If his speech managed to enrage—or, to quote him quoting campus jargon, “trigger”—a room riddled with skeptics, it didn’t show. On a day when angry constituents were confronting their congresspeople at town halls across the country, the mood in this small lecture hall ...

Welcome to This American Carnage, your weekly slice of life from the country of Trump. Another February, another Munich Security Conference, a.k.a. the “world’s most prestigious geopolitical gathering.” This time, though, the conference will take place as a ...

Welcome to This American Carnage, your weekly slice of life from the country of Trump. Donald Trump’s first hundred days in office may be a disaster for the country, but for that pocket of conservative Christians worried about the ease of religiously motivated discrimination, ...

Welcome to This American Carnage, your weekly slice of life from the country of Trump On Monday, news broke of a fresh bureaucratic uprising—this time through a memo posted to the State Department’s Dissent Channel expressing the dissatisfaction of nearly 1000 ...

Forcing the phrase “Merry Christmas” back to the forefront of American culture will make our liberal-infected country “great again,” insists president-elect Donald Trump—but somehow, we’re not feeling the cheer. Instead of masking our suffering with enough mulled ...

Thirteen months ago, U.S. senator and self-described democratic socialist Bernie Sanders kicked off his campaign on the shore of Lake Champlain in his home state of Vermont. Sanders wasn’t expected to win—nor was he expected to get this far. And while he may have ...