Archive - Notes From The Circus

On N.S. Lyons and the Love of a Nation

What Liberalism Forgets, What It Remembers, and What It Must Recover

6 hrs ago •

The Collapse of Republican Seriousness

On Constitutional Memory, Judicial Threats, and the Disintegration of Civic Responsibility

11 hrs ago •

The Day's Spectacle

The Performance of Reality

20 hrs ago •

Is Richard Hanania Okay?

On Confession, Cruelty, and the Philosophy of Moral Evasion

Mar 23 •

What Is It, Exactly, That Being an American Means to You?

Is it a flag on your porch?

Mar 23 •

The Limits of Dismissal

Power, Meaning, and the Trouble with Closing the Argument Too Soon

Mar 22 •

The Mask Slips at NRO

On National Review's Non-Response to Constitutional Crisis

Mar 22 •

The Sun Is Rising

But Today Doesn't Feel Like Yesterday

Mar 22 •

Clear Thinking v. Ayn Rand

On the Collapse of Objectivism and the Need to Hold Tension

Mar 22 •

The Presidential Toddler Theory of Government

Trump’s Denials of Responsibility Reveal the Infantile Logic of Authoritarian Power

Mar 22 •

The Language of Surrender

How Euphemism and Distortion Are Making Resistance to Authoritarianism Unspeakable

Mar 21 •

Elon Musk Is Getting the War Plan Against China

This Isn’t Just a Conflict of Interest—It’s a National Security Emergency

Mar 21 •

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