Daniel Oppenheimer

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Dec 4, 2024 | arcmag.org | Daniel Oppenheimer

There are two narratives of the conservative Christian writer Rod Dreher that I hold in creative tension. One is that he is in touch with something deep in both himself and the culture that leads to insights that a secular liberal like me will always miss.

Nov 6, 2024 | post-gazette.com | Daniel Oppenheimer

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Nov 5, 2024 | post-gazette.com | Daniel Oppenheimer |David Mills

I voted today, in a presidential election, on Nov. 5, 2024, and I noted the time, too, and I looked hard at the earnest faces of fellow citizens working the polling place. I was consciously preserving details that usually require no absorption at all, I think because this one felt different. I voted for democracyI voted for American democracy, with all its shaggy faults and myriad imperfections.

Oct 31, 2024 | airmail.news | Daniel Oppenheimer |Timothy Shenk

Left Adrift: What Happened to Liberal Politics by Timothy Shenk Timothy Shenk’s new book, Left Adrift: What Happened to Liberal Politics, tries to weave together two stories and sometimes succeeds. One is about the rival careers of two of the major center-left political advisers of the past half-century, Stan Greenberg and Doug Schoen, each of whom has peddled his consultative wares not just in the U.S. but across the world, from the U.K. to South Africa, to Israel, to Ukraine.