Paul Campos

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is expected to attend the Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday for former President Trump's ongoing New York criminal trial , the latest high-profile GOP lawmaker to flock to New York.

I know you keep us amused But I feel we're being used: “Collaborating” being le mot juste.

He points out that wars have three possible endings: one side defeats the other decisively; the two sides exhaust each other into an armistice; or outside powers impose an ending on the combatants.

Here's an extremely interesting and important article from Thomas Edsall ( gift link ), on shifting patterns of authoritarianism in American politics and culture. The most striking data point Edsall discusses is that over the last 30 years the party identification of Americans most attracted to authoritarianism has gone from 50/50 Republican-Democrat to 80/20. This is part of a worldwide trend.

A friend points out to me that this sacred tradition which countless American soldiers fought and died to preserve is six years younger than the McRib.

The combination of Merrick Garland’s initial lassitude, the rigging of the federal judiciary with Federalist Society hacks, and Fani Willis’s personal recklessness and poor judgment, have combined to pretty much ensure that Donald Trump won’t see the inside of another criminal courtroom prior to the election. Cannon’s May 7 order set 14 pretrial deadlines, vacated […]

A couple of days ago I noticed that RFK Jr. had somehow raised $75 million for his vanity presidential campaign (by comparison Marianne Williamson, who is still running for the Democratic party nomination yo, has raised five million, and Cornel West has raised $853,000, which I can only hope he's skimming to pay off some back child support). I was wondering where he was managing to dig up that kind of scratch, and the answer

Kansas City Chiefs placekicker Harrison Butker has caused quite a little stir with a commencement speech he gave at Benedictine College, a small Catholic school in Kansas. Much of the attention has been focused on this passage: For the ladies present today, congratulations on an amazing accomplishment. You should be proud of all that you […]

After the 2020 presidential election, as some Trump supporters falsely claimed that President Biden had stolen the office, many of them displayed a startling symbol outside their homes, on their cars and in online posts: an upside-down American flag.

A few weeks ago I blogged about Justin Wolfers's interesting point that the psychology of inflation tends to feature the widespread assumption that increases in prices are something unjustly imposed on a consumer, while increases in wages are earned via merit. This is one reason why, especially recently, economic sentiment has tended to be much more negative than the macro statistics would suggest it ought to be (there are many other reasons of course).