Latest articles by Damon Linker
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How the pursuit of happiness has led to profound despair
opinion Why there are so many miserable Americans
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The lies we tell ourselves about America's forever wars
The Explainer Enough with this conspiracy of silence
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The sickening danger of home-schooling
opinion It's time we regulated home-schools
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Unbiased reporting is a historical anomaly
The Explainer The journalistic ideals of objectivity and accuracy are dying. That means we're returning to the American norm.
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How right-wing insurgencies win
The Explainer Our democratic institutions remain vulnerable to the machinations of populist outsiders
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Want to stop sexual abuse in the workplace? Make sure every company has an HR department.
opinion Victims need an established institutional means of reporting bad behavior to an ostensibly neutral, bureaucratic entity
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America's age of erasure
opinion What happens when a mob demands that representations of people or events that fall short of current moral standards be taken down and destroyed?
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Welcome to the post-liberal world
The Explainer It's not a friendly place
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The genius and stupidity of Silicon Valley
opinion Behold the folly of our tech wizards
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The disintegration of the liberal dream
opinion Wake up, everyone
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American barbarism
The Explainer What the Las Vegas massacre reveals about the veneer of our civilization
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Neil Finn's ageless wonder
feature Reflections on the chilliness and beauty of Neil Finn's Out of Silence
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How Trump's incoherent U.N. speech perfectly mirrored America's foreign policy
The Explainer The president's speech was a muddled mess. So is America's foreign policy.
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The Western paradox
opinion Nothing is more Western than considering it morally offensive to defend the West
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5 great movies about America
The Explainer These films will teach you about America as it is, in all of its moral and historical complexity
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Trump's travel ban is foolish and unnecessary. But the Supreme Court was right to protect it.
opinion Stupid does not mean unconstitutional
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How Trump echoed George W. Bush in Saudi Arabia
opinion In his much-anticipated speech on Islam, Trump sounded moderate, principled, realistic — and almost presidential
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The real existential threat of radical Islam
opinion Terrorists are militarily weak — but politically powerful
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How long can centrists keep the radicals at bay?
opinion Anti-liberal radicalism is rising in the West. And the establishment has no plan to stop it.
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D.C.'s war madness
opinion Why America's foreign policy establishment is hopelessly, perhaps irredeemably, deluded about Syria
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The spiritual agony behind America's opioid crisis
opinion Let's try and actually understand drug addicts' complicated quest for happiness
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The sheer terror of being alone with our thoughts
feature We spend much of our lives trying to flee the inescapable fact of our own finitude — and it's much easier to do so amid a swarm of buzzing distractions
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I thought rock music was dead. Then I heard Big Wreck.
The Explainer This band will make you love rock 'n' roll again
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Why would a young person today be religious?
feature One of religion's main appeals is its claim to a coherent account of the universe. But that might be too simplistic for our pluralistic age.
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