Damir Marusic

Washington, D.C.

Assignment Editor at Washington Post Opinions

Assignment Editor, @PostOpinions. Co-founder of @WCrowdsLive. My opinions are my own, and should not discourage you from pitching me.

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Articles

Is there a Method to Trump’s Madness?

1 week ago | wisdomofcrowds.live | Shadi Hamid |Damir Marusic |Oren Cass

It’s been an exceptionally crazy week, even by Trump-era standards. So we decided to experiment with the podcast this week by doing a live-stream recording. and discuss whether there is a method to Trump’s madness about tariffs and everything else — or whether we have to accept that we are ruled by a Mad King, who himself does not know what he will do from one moment to the next.
Will nuclear talks with Iran fall apart?

1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Damir Marusic

Will nuclear talks with Iran fall apart? (washingtonpost.com) Will nuclear talks with Iran fall apart? By Damir Marusic 2025041019204700 You're reading the Prompt 2025 newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox. On Monday, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would be holding direct talks with Iranian leaders about their nuclear program this weekend in Oman.
Wisdom of Crowds is Going Live!

1 week ago | wisdomofcrowds.live | Shadi Hamid |Damir Marusic

We’re going live! In light of the tariff craziness and global market turmoil, and will get together to see if there is any way to make sense of things. It will be just like a podcast but live streamed, so you can submit questions in real time on the chat!We’ll be doing it today at 6 pm EST. Join us! We’ll be talking about how to make sense of our odd (and increasingly frightening) political moment. To watch on your computer, you’ll get an email when we go live.
Ross Douthat on Why We Should All Be Religious

2 weeks ago | wisdomofcrowds.live | Damir Marusic |Shadi Hamid |Ross Douthat

In 2012, New York Times columnist published Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics, a book about how mainstream American religion was devolving into the prosperity gospel, superstitious cults and other forms of heterodox faith. Thirteen years later, the American religious landscape has changed, and Ross wrote a new book tackling a much more basic question: why you should be religious at all. He joins and to discuss that book, which is titled Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious.
Why is Trump destroying the economy?

2 weeks ago | shadihamid.net | Shadi Hamid |Damir Marusic

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A Lesson in Humility

3 weeks ago | wisdomofcrowds.live | Damir Marusic

“I like your fit, bro. What do you do?”I had just stepped out of a karaoke bar to grab some air. I was wearing an off-white safari blazer for my friend’s birthday, so I probably looked foppishly out of place in filthy drunken Adams Morgan a little after 1AM. Was the guy making a pass at me? I probably took a defensive step back. He was holding a joint, wearing all black, eyes slits, sunglasses on his forehead. Seemed taller than me. California vibe, I thought.
Why that 'Severance' finale hit so hard

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Damir Marusic

You're reading the Prompt 2025 newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox. On Thursday night, the final episode of Season 2 of "Severance" aired, and, wow, was it an emotional roller-coaster. I knew the show was a national sensation when a few weeks back a mysterious and important Slack channel named "Macrodata-Refinement" appeared at Post Opinions. I sat down with two of my colleagues, Robert Gebelhoff and Lillian Barkley, just after watching the episode to unpack our feelings about the show.
Is Democracy Ending?

1 month ago | wisdomofcrowds.live | Shadi Hamid |Damir Marusic |Santiago Ramos

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -51:20Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Recent events suggest that the balance of power is breaking down. Trump is achieving executive supremacy. In less fancy terms, Trump looks like he’s becoming a dictator. Rule of law might be slipping away. and agree about all this. But they disagree about which recent event is the true inflection point.
The Universal and the Particular

1 month ago | wisdomofcrowds.live | Damir Marusic |Shadi Hamid |Peter Beinart

With the Gaza ceasefire possibly collapsing any minute, we return to the topic of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks and the ensuing war in the Holy Land. Specifically, and discuss the tension between a belief in universal human rights, on the one hand, and allegiance to one’s ethnic and religious roots, on the other. Joining Shadi and Damir is friend of Wisdom of Crowds, opinion writer for the New York Times and editor-at-large of the magazine, Jewish Currents.
Barbarians at the Gate

1 month ago | wisdomofcrowds.live | Damir Marusic

Ten days or so ago, at the end of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, I found myself at a party. I’ve been to these sorts of things before, and more often than not they have been insufferable affairs: sweaty frat basements reeking of stale beer, bright young men outnumbering bright young women whose attention they desire. Starry-eyed, badly-dressed, trying way too hard — the essence of DC. (Incidentally, Democrats are no better — every bit the caricature as their opposite.