"The boomers had it right. They moderated their ways, but held on to the things that were warm & comforting. Life’s short. You have to meet your beliefs where they are:" another sharp Selim Koru kulturkampftr.substack.com/p/the-legacy-o… Mustafa Akyol Shadi Hamid Dragoman

My Washington Post Opinions colleagues and I will offer real-time commentary of tonight’s presidential debate. Follow along with us! Starting now. wapo.st/3AUXB4K

Megan McArdle Perry Bacon Jr. "Trump going full crazy on the 2020 election is maybe something people have forgotten about. And that's what he's doing now, and it's jarring to hear him repeat the same lies." - Shadi Hamid wapo.st/4d0pndq

Megan McArdle Perry Bacon Jr. Shadi Hamid Jim Geraghty Ramesh Ponnuru EJ Dionne "If I were voting for Trump, my head would be resting in my hands right now. He just keeps getting more digressive and incoherent as the night goes along." - Megan McArdle "A serous if perhaps naive question: Were other people aware that Harris is a gun owner? That definitely

Some final thoughts on the debate: To the extent that many Americans feel adrift, and to the extent that their own sense of decline is reflected in Trump's description of national decline, Trump's words may resonate more than we might like to admit. wapo.st/3AUXB4K

‘When men become less critical to a society’s security, masculinity takes a hit’ washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

Walter Lippmann on political writing:

Smart strategic comms decisions: (1) Good timing. Posting this right after the debate was maximally helpful to the campaign, on top of the endorsement itself. Dropping it that evening made sure it was included in all the post debate analysis. That helped form an impression that

We are devastated by the loss of six of our UNRWA colleagues in Gaza, killed by an Israeli airstrike on a school. This is absolutely unacceptable and has to stop. Humanitarians must be protected. They are #NotATarget.

This is so common that it mostly just elicits a shrug. And on it goes. How can you defend the indefensible? (I guess the only real defense is the standard one, "but Hamas..." which is just another way of saying that anything and everything is justified after Oct. 7)

It's out! Can classical liberalism truly stay classical? 🍿

With first "softball questions," then more grilling and exciting ones, I had a rich conversation with Shadi Hamid and Matthew Kaemingk on my new book, "The Islamic Moses," as well as the future of religion in the modern world. Here it goes:

Populist stars, religious leaders, educating the elites... One of the COOLEST events we've EVER done with Interintellect 🧭 🔥 Come! NYC festival | October 6 | Jennifer A. Frey Julia Sonnevend Tara Isabella Burton (HERE IN AVALON out now) John Ganz Shadi Hamid Musa al-Gharbi Michael S Roth interintellect.com/salon/ideas-of…