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Cardinal Cons

Chris Lehmann

June 11, 2018

Get out your crying towels, readers, because Niall Ferguson is leading a real conservative wail-fest.

The Swamp Thickens

Chris Lehmann

May 14, 2018

Michael Cohen learned the rent-seeking style of grifting at the foot of the Master.

The Party Bosses Decide

Chris Lehmann

April 30, 2018

Democratic Party hacks are out in full force, like a plague of Spring cicadas, chirping the same old talking points.

The Gospel According to Paul

Chris Lehmann

April 16, 2018

Paul Ryan's career was an exercise in fooling gullible Washington correspondents.

Another Sorry Snob

Chris Lehmann

April 02, 2018

Laura Ingraham: Must be a right-wing snob—went to Dartmouth.

Bankers’ Robberies

Chris Lehmann

March 19, 2018

How much shady dealing can one bank get away with? Take a look at the record of rolling heists at Wells Fargo.

Downgrading Harvard

Chris Lehmann

March 05, 2018

The question for Harvard's investment managers is: If you're so rich, why aren't you smart?

The Tyranny of the Takes

Chris Lehmann

February 19, 2018

The real reason that Never Trumpers have the inside track to pundit posts in our papers of record is that a left-led Trump resistance is horrifying to them.

The Reboot of the Elites

Chris Lehmann

February 05, 2018

Ardent neoliberals tend to come into their own political convictions much as Joseph Kennedy III has: as a matter of class inheritance.

The Public Interest and the Public Offering

Chris Lehmann

January 22, 2018

Spielberg's The Post never goes beneath the surface of the media’s fraught relationship with power.

Throne of Games

Chris Lehmann

January 08, 2018

According to Michael Wolff, Trump’s inner circle exists in acute triage conditions, and is forever unable to anticipate the next squalid yawp from the presidential id.

A Liberal Comity Show

Chris Lehmann

December 11, 2017

Our leading political savants last week settled the sort of controversy that’s the NPR equivalent of an opioid rush—the proposition that “liberals hold the moral high ground.”