Jim Sleeper

Taming the Beast

How on earth do we return authoritarian true believers to civil society? There are short-term and long-term answers.

Cleansing Ourselves of Trumpism

We can’t wish away the resentments he’s stoked. But we can counter them.

When Immigrants Were Welcomed

Congress has failed immigrants again. But in the 1920s, this plan quieted xenophobes and nurtured new Americans.

Eyes Off the Prize

Mark Lilla isn’t wrong about identity politics, necessarily; but he’s wrong to see it as a greater danger than capitalism unchained.

A Tyranny Years in the Making

What results when the market obliterates the civic square? Trump.