Noah Millman

Columnist

Noah Millman is a screenwriter and filmmaker, a political columnist and a critic. From 2012 through 2017 he was a senior editor and featured blogger at The American Conservative. His work has also appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Politico, USA Today, The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, Foreign Policy, Modern Age, First Things, and the Jewish Review of Books, among other publications. Noah lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.

President Biden and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

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Opinion

The last Democratic SCOTUS appointment?

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A defense attorney in a society of cops

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Opinion

The secret plan to get things done in Congress

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Opinion

What we'll forget about COVID

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Opinion

Ukraine needs honest brokers

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Opinion

A war without an off-ramp

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The pictures got small — maybe that's okay

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Opinion

It's still Putin's move

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Opinion

Building better now?

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A new era of nuclear proliferation?

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Abundance, not austerity

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We've met our democratic deficit, and it is us

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Opinion

The best replacement for Stephen Breyer is Stephen Breyer

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Could the threat of Ukrainian resistance deter Russia?

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Opinion

How attacking SCOTUS is a Democratic self-own

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Opinion

3 cheers for the pig man

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Opinion

Does Putin want to avoid war?

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Opinion

We need more tests

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Opinion

Tweaking Harvard's admissions rules won't make America less elitist

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Opinion

The radicalization of a COVID moderate

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Opinion

Fighting over the last sip

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Opinion

A Catch-22 in Taiwan and Ukraine

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Opinion

Dems, stop playing 'who's the most progressive?'

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Free lunch is off the menu

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COVID hawks are fighting a losing war

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The punitive turn in tax rhetoric

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Opinion

Will Democrats give Mitt Romney a call?

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Opinion

How the GOP won at identity politics

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The debt ceiling: A fight about nothing

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Opinion

The heart of the Evergrande crisis

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It's the virus, stupid

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Opinion

What America has learned since 9/11

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The sticky problem of 'religious exemption'

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Occam's Razor and the Delta surge

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Envying California

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Opinion

Plan B