No matter how hard I try to excise any commentary from James Carville from my media diet, he persists in my inbox, and in the newspapers I read, and on television if I am masochistically watching cable news. Why? Who are these people enabling him who believe the general populace

I DISAGREE! GET ON MY LAWN, KIDS! I have an essay in this month's print edition of The Nation about why Dem leadership (and I don't just mean electeds, I mean people with influence, donors, etc.) is so worked up about the rise of Democratic Socialism

The problems that make colleges a hostile environment for women start long before. I wrote a column for The Nation about the Cornell case, my own experience with sexual assault, and why children--boys especially–need to be taught about consent at the earliest ages. Below is the column. I

Why You Shouldn't Use A.I. to Write A Professional Op-Ed, by Me, a Professional Op-Ed Writer Who Has Less Real Competition If You Do [Stanley Druckenmiller's WSJ op-ed, which he apparently wrote with A.I.--and Paul Gigot's defense of

Updates, new workshop schedule, and random thoughts Here in NYC, public school kids don't start their summer break till late June, and they go back the first week of September. When I was growing up in Alabama, we ended school at the beginning of May and started back

I wrote about J.D. Vance's new book for The Nation. Anyone who knows me knows I dislike politicians magically transforming into good ol' boys when it's politically advantageous. (Looking at you, DJT Jr.) Vance has some actual good ol' boy cred but he

I wrote a column for The Nation about the various billionaires who've been whining about Zohran Mamdani's teeny tiny tax increase on their multi-million dollar pied-a-terres and threatening to move to Florida. (Promises, promises.) The column is below. The Billionaires’ Bathos Club American