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.

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Opinion

The problem with muting your friends

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Analysis

Biden's controversial Cabinet picks will reveal who holds the cards in Washington

Mitch McConnell, President Trump, and Joe Biden.

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Opinion

Trump the paper tiger

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Opinion

Can an old Blob learn new tricks?

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Opinion

Republican legislatures should put their cards on the table

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Opinion

Let's appreciate how extraordinary the vaccines are

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Feature

How to fix the Constitution in a divided Washington

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Opinion

How Joe Biden can create a foreign policy that sticks around

President-elect Joe Biden signs legislation.

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Opinion

How Biden can save his agenda under divided government

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Opinion

Don't panic: Democracy is holding up

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Analysis

COVID-19 keeps proving everyone wrong

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Feature

Is Trump the candidate of peace?

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Analysis

The craziest ways the 2020 election might end

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Analysis

A new constitution? Be careful what you wish for.

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Feature

What the language police miss about offensive words

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Opinion

Is Joe Biden the Konrad Adenauer of the U.S.?

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Opinion

2020 and the shadow of Bush v. Gore

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Opinion

Democrats' terrible bluff on the Supreme Court

Opinion

How a productivity phenomenon explains the unraveling of America

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Analysis

Who has the most to lose from political violence?

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Opinion

The left is blowing the school reopening crisis

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Opinion

Is the Republican Party a cult of personality?

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Opinion

Biden cares about America. Can Democrats show they do too?

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Opinion

The culture war in a tuna fish sandwich

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Opinion

Is Kamala Harris really the heir apparent of the Democratic Party?

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Opinion

America is coming apart. Europe is coming together.

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Opinion

Coronavirus and the crisis of capitalism

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Opinion

The scandal of the Declaration

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Analysis

Nobody knows how bad this coronavirus surge is

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Opinion

Will Biden's VP pick be Black, female — and a cop?

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Feature

Call them the coronavirus riots

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Opinion

The reality of the 'new cold war' with China

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Analysis

Coronavirus will win. America needs to make a plan for failure.

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Analysis

What the stock market knows

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Analysis

How close are we to herd immunity?

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Analysis

The new mysteries of coronavirus