And, you know, the nice thing about President Trump is he knows that.” Vought is now in charge of the budget machine, eager to succeed in defeating what he calls an “amorphous oligarchy, ...

This is to say they get worked by people living in communities that tend to be of a conservative bent, meaning that they are full of people with recalcitrant attachments to rural ways of life, who ...

From The Dream Hotel, which will be published this month by Pantheon. Morning light silvers the glass-brick windows of the Safe-X library. A sign taped to the wall above the return shelf says quiet.

From Pause the Document, which will be published this month by Nightboat Books.

Liberal internationalism died in the ruins of Gaza and Beirut. Donald Trump’s return to office has only put a tin plate on the coffin. The doctrine lost all legitimacy through its dependence on ...

From the introduction to a reissue of Martin Amis’s novel London Fields, which was published in November by Vintage, in Britain. The curse of Englishness is something whose magnitude we are still ...

From “Brains in Washington,” which appeared in the March 1936 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 174-year ...