Our columnist closes out his one-year run with his favorites of the year.
Rick Perlstein
Rick Perlstein is the author of a four-volume series on the history of America’s political and cultural divisions, and the rise of conservatism, from the 1950s to the election of Ronald Reagan. He lives in Chicago.
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Conrad and Me
The second in a series of ‘billionaires I have known’
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MAGA’s Way or the Highway
How the cold civil war shares characteristics with the hot one
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The Magic Thinking of Kennedy-ism
The hero worship of the family of American royalty has a dark side: a tendency toward conspiracism that fits with the MAGA movement.
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Dr. Strangekennedy
Or, how you should learn to worry more about illiberal politics in liberal guise
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How to Hear a Fascist
Trump was supposed to be in decline, losing it. He lost it all the way to the White House.
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Garbagegate, With a Twist
The media’s penchant to balance the two parties and control the narrative didn’t quite work when it came to a Trump insult comic’s comments about Puerto Rico.
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What Will You Do?
Life-changing choices we may be forced to make if Donald Trump wins