Damon Linker
Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also a former contributing editor at The New Republic and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test.
Latest articles by Damon Linker
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3 things everyone is getting wrong about the El Paso-Dayton shootings
The Explainer Mental illness is a red herring — but so is Trump
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America's time of reckoning over Israel has arrived
opinion Why Netanyahu's West Bank announcement cannot help but alter the way Americans think about their support for Israel
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America's dangerous inconstancy
The Explainer No one knows which America will show up in 2 years. That's a problem.
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How the new American center sees the world
The Explainer It's long past time for a new foreign policy consensus
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America is not responsible for Venezuela
opinion Venezuelans are suffering. That doesn't mean the U.S. military should intervene.
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America's bewildering imperialism
opinion How can the leader of the free world not allow other countries to be free?
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Europe's coming anti-liberal empire
The Explainer Inside the anti-liberal plot to capture the European Parliament
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Trump is breaking one of America's worst habits
opinion Why Trump's policy shift on Syria and Afghanistan was impulsive yet wise
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What Bruce Springsteen taught me about being a good man
opinion The Tao of Bruce
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The perils of our Great Awokening
opinion "Baby, It's Cold Outside" and the death of seduction
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Who will rise in the post-liberal world order?
The Explainer In much of the West, anti-establishment energies appear to be taking ideologically heterogeneous form
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Why I left the Catholic Church
opinion And why I fully expect quite a few people to join me very soon
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The continuing lunacy of the neocons
opinion Neocons are advocating for regime change in China. Will they never learn?
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The paranoid delusions behind American foreign policy
opinion Our military dwarfs everyone else's. So what is America so scared of?
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Men are the worst. Here's how they can be better.
opinion Throughout our violent, sexist history, the world has had a very big man problem
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When #MeToo goes too far
opinion What we can learn from the firestorm over The New York Review of Books' Ian Buruma
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When the losers take over
opinion Eastern Europe shows what replaces meritocracy when the populists come to town
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The unbearable ugliness of the Catholic Church
opinion It has been revealed as a repulsive institution. I'm done.
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Pope Francis' cunning long game
opinion The quiet revolution continues
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Israel, Gaza, and the end of just wars
opinion What happens when there are no moral limits on acts of warfare? We're about to find out.
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Trump's astonishing impotence
opinion The president has accomplished almost none of the things he set out to do. Why?
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The Catholic Church can be changed
opinion Many conservative Catholics will resist it. But justice and mercy ought to be more important than doctrinal consistency.
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Should a professor lose her job for tweeting horrible things?
opinion Why you should pay close attention to the free speech fight at Fresno State
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International law won't save us
opinion Trump's Syrian airstrikes reveal why
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