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Damon Linker

Philadelphia

Owner and Writer at Eyes on the Right

Senior Lecturer in Political Science @Penn / Senior Fellow @NiskanenCenter / Newsletter scribe

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  • A Conversation About the Highest Values and the Best Things

    6 days ago | damonlinker.substack.com | Damon Linker

    Upgrade to paid to play voiceoverIn a moment overflowing with intimations of political and cultural dystopia, including outright attacks on universities, we don’t acknowledge enough how delightful it can be to live the life of the mind—and how it is still possible to do so, and sometimes more easily than ever before, right now, in the present. Allow me to explain what I mean by way of an example.

  • Ryan Lizza talks to Damon Linker about “the thinkers who set the stage for Trump the all-powerful”

    1 week ago | telos.news | Ryan Lizza |Damon Linker

    , and many others for tuning into my live video with! Join me for my next live video in the app.

  • Ryan Lizza talks to Damon Linker about “the thinkers who set the stage for Trump the all-powerful”

    1 week ago | damonlinker.substack.com | Damon Linker |Ryan Lizza

    This was a fabulous conversation that lasted for over an hour and felt like it could have gone on much longer. Thank you, and many others for tuning into my live video withGet more from Damon Linker in the Substack app Available for iOS and Android

  • Substack Live with Ryan Lizza

    1 week ago | damonlinker.substack.com | Damon Linker

    If you’re available, please tune in to watch and listen to my conversation with acclaimed journalist (and recent arrival to Substack) Ryan Lizza. We’re going to be talking about my NYT guest essay from over the weekend. If you don’t have the Substack App, you’ll have to download it, since Substack Live streams can only be viewed that way. Though I will also post a video of the conversation later today, so you can wait to watch it that way as well.

  • "These Thinkers Set the Stage for Trump the All-Powerful"

    1 week ago | damonlinker.substack.com | Damon Linker

    Amidst everything else going on over the past month or so, I’ve been working on a piece of writing that appears in Sunday’s New York Times. It’s a look at a tradition of right-wing thinking about the need to enhance executive power. It begins like this:With a blitz of moves in his 100 days in office, President Trump has sought to greatly enlarge executive power.

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Damon Linker
Damon Linker @DamonLinker
23 Apr 25

Everyone in the executive branch thinks he's Rush Limbaugh talking to the dittoheads.

DOD Rapid Response
DOD Rapid Response @DODResponse

. @SecDef "No more social engineering. No more climate change worship. No more electric tanks. No more gender confusion. No more pronouns. No more excuses. No more quotas. No more WOKE bullsh*t that undermines commanders and command climates. We are laser focused on our mission https://t.co/02v9OTHDij

Damon Linker
Damon Linker @DamonLinker
23 Apr 25

RT @TheStalwart: Charlie McElligott at Nomura has some very tough words to describe the change in tone from the admin from yesterday mornin…

Damon Linker
Damon Linker @DamonLinker
23 Apr 25

RT @BenjySarlin: A Nietzsche quote I came back to a lot in 2017-2019: "In peaceful conditions, the warlike man will attack himself."