Latest articles by Damon Linker
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Our pandemic half-lives
opinion On a year spent under lockdown
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Phoebe Bridgers' Punisher was the best album of 2020
feature Bridgers' musical and lyrical sensibility fits 2020's distinctive spirit of suspended animation better than anything else released this year
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The anti-social media
feature Indignation isn't a byproduct of Twitter. It's the point.
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What if the U.S. isn't special?
opinion First we were angels. Now we're devils ...
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Trump doubles down on the jerk vote
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The poetic wisdom of Dawes' Good Luck with Whatever
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Trump's strategy of COVID denial is defeated by COVID
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The scary foreign policy implications of Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis
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The Trump camp claims Biden is senile 007
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2 conventions, 2 Americas
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus bombs at the DNC
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Who is Kamala Harris?
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Our time of dread
opinion Is the worst yet to come?
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The woke revolution in American journalism has begun
opinion Can the media's traditional principles survive?
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When journalists stop believing in debate
opinion On the reaction to Tom Cotton's op-ed in The New York Times
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When time stops
opinion What happens when there's nothing to look forward to?
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The death of rock's master craftsman
opinion Incomparable and irreplaceable, Rush's Neil Peart will be sorely missed
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4 lies about America's perpetual wars
opinion Enough is enough
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Turns out I'm Jewish after all
opinion I left Judaism 20 years ago. Anti-Semitism has inexorably pulled me back.
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William Barr is shockingly clear about his authoritarianism
opinion Now the attorney general is arguing that police protection is conditional on obedience — which is exactly what authoritarian regimes say
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The strategic incoherence of Trump's Syria critics
opinion Do they want to stay in Syria indefinitely?
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America is a foreign policy control freak
opinion The march to war with Iran reveals America's obsessive need to intervene
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The democratic world is losing its ability to self-govern
The Explainer From Britain to Italy to the U.S., democratic governments are falling victim to ideological incoherence
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The coming death of just about every rock legend
feature On rock music’s losing battle with mortality
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