James Poulos
James Poulos is a contributing editor at National Affairs and the author of The Art of Being Free, out January 17 from St. Martin's Press. He has written on freedom and the politics of the future for publications ranging from The Federalist to Foreign Policy and from Good to Vice. He fronts the band Night Years in Los Angeles, where he lives with his son.
Latest articles by James Poulos
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Don't be fooled by Hillary Clinton's dominant South Carolina win. She's still eminently beatable.
opinion All the Republicans have to do is prevent a total meltdown in Cleveland to be competitive
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How the GOP's unhinged debate diminished both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio
opinion Too snide, too superficial, and far too ego-driven...
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Would a President Trump ruin America's foreign policy — or save it?
opinion After Nevada, this is perhaps the most important question of Trump's candidacy
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Jeb Bush is out. But Marco Rubio is the real Bush in the 2016 race.
opinion And that's not a good thing for the Florida senator
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How Hillary Clinton awkwardly exploited the limits of Bernie Sanders' political imagination
opinion Clinton hardly routed Sanders in Nevada, but she did just enough
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Why Donald Trump's vicious attack on George W. Bush was so brutally effective — and brilliant
opinion And how it dealt the GOP establishment a potentially crippling blow
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The Democrats are in disarray... again
opinion This is the big takeaway from Thursday's presidential debate
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How John Kasich! stole Jeb!'s exclamation mark
opinion And how Jeb plans to get it back
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How Chris Christie exposed Marco Rubio as an untrustworthy pretender
opinion This was supposed to be Marco's moment. He's blowing it.
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The pseudo-intellectualism of President Obama's mosque visit
opinion What all the president's platitudes missed about Islam and democracy
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Why Hillary Clinton's razor-thin Iowa win is really a crushing defeat
opinion And what it can teach the GOP about beating the left's foremost power-hungry insider
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Rand Paul was the only Republican to have a good debate
opinion Everyone else just pretended to be Trump
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Why I'm not afraid of Donald Trump
opinion Trump would annihilate constitutional government, conservative philosophy, and the Republican brand? Give me a break.
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Hillary Clinton's hatchet job
opinion As Sunday night's Democratic debate showed, Clinton can be utterly shameless when cornered
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What Socrates could teach us about the Republicans' angry debate
opinion Let's talk about Trump, Cruz, and the Greek notion of thymos
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The easy historicism of President Obama
opinion Has any other president so tied his work to the course of history?
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China is building its first military base in Africa. America should be very nervous.
opinion In the new Great Game, America is getting trounced
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Why 2016 is a turning point in American politics
opinion FDR's deal with the American people is beginning to unravel. What comes next?
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The bad news about ISIS's defeat in Ramadi
The Explainer The contours of a broader sectarian war are coming into focus
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The missing middle in the GOP's foreign policy debate
opinion All the American people wanted to hear was a coherent strategy to restore American power. They didn't get it.
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The deep, perverse relationship between Middle Eastern despots and Islamist fanaticism
opinion The fight against ISIS is not nearly as straightforward as many Western leaders claim
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Chris Christie is the thinking man's Donald Trump
opinion The 2016 candidate's securitarian brand is starting to pay off with Republican elites. Will the grassroots follow?
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Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and the politics of toughness
opinion The two GOP presidential candidates are sparring on foreign policy. Cruz is winning.
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After Paris: Why the world needs a stronger U.S.-France alliance
opinion The Franco-American mission we must carry out: Hunt and destroy the perverse and barbaric terrorist groups waging war against us and our civilization
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