Ned Resnikoff

The late-career arc of Steve Bannon, Washington insider, was by any measure a supreme anticlimax. Bannon, you may recall, was unceremoniously nudged out of the White House back in the late summer, and in lieu of easing into a lucrative lobbying job or academic sinecure he ...

While no Trump administration official can match Malcolm Tucker’s wit, they can certainly equal his vulgarity.

Food is one of the most basic human needs, and feeding people is among the basic functions of any remotely competent civilization. Our ancestors’ efforts to avoid starvation are arguably the reason we have a civilization in the first place. If the Neolithic Revolution in ...

As I write this, it’s been about three months since the publication of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Atlantic cover story about reparations. That’s not a very long time relative to the span of a human life, but it’s significantly longer than the average lifespan for most Internet ...

  Taken in its original context, Nietzsche’s famous dictum “God is dead” sounds more like a warning than a triumphant boast. When the line appears in The Gay Science, Nietzsche places it in the mouth of a village madman who soon realizes the world is not yet ready to hear ...

  Paul Ryan deserves credit for having learned exactly the right way to become a Washington policy sage. He knows that whether a proposal will succeed or fail really has very little to do with actual government policy, and everything to do with policy aesthetics. A serious ...

Mark it: We’re at the point in American civilization where the very existence of a literary culture is, in fact, newsworthy. That’s why the New York Times decided to run a column last week with the incredulous headline, “The French Do Buy Books. Real ...

Elite consensus alone may not be able to spur political realignments, but it can shape how we perceive them as they’re happening. That’s precisely what’s happening to the popular image of the so-called Millennials, right as that generation flowers into the full bloom of ...