George Packer

2 weeks ago | sueddeutsche.de | George Packer

J. D. Vance poses a problem, and at its core is a question about character. In the years after the 2016 election, he transformed himself from a center-right memoirist and public speaker, offering a complex analysis of America’s social ills and a sharp critique of Donald Trump, into a right-wing populist politician whose illiberal ideas and vitriolic rhetoric frequently out-Trump the original.

2 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | George Packer

Listen1.0x0:0043:25Listen to more stories on harkJ. D. Vance poses a problem, and at its core is a question about character. In the years after the 2016 election, he transformed himself from a center-right memoirist and public speaker, offering a complex analysis of America’s social ills and a sharp critique of Donald Trump, into a right-wing populist politician whose illiberal ideas and vitriolic rhetoric frequently out-Trump the original.

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | George Packer

Professors Timothy Snyder, Marci Shore, and Jason Stanley are leaving Yale for the University of Toronto. Some of their reasons might be personal and professional, but these well-known academics—two historians and a philosopher—aren’t just changing jobs. They’re fleeing America as they see it falling under an authoritarian regime.

2 months ago | theatlantic.com | George Packer

Listen1.0x0:008:39Listen to more stories on harkIn George Orwell’s 1984, at the climax of Hate Week, Oceania is suddenly no longer at war with Eurasia, but instead is at war with Eastasia, and always has been. The pivot comes with no explanation or even announcement.

2 months ago | flipboard.com | George Packer

4 hours agoThe deep divide lurking in Trump officials’ leaked group chatThe chat logs revealed an administration that wants to both dominate the world and withdraw from it. The biggest story in America is, and should remain, the Trump administration’s accidental inclusion of Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg on a Signal group chat about planning airstrikes in …7 hours agoDisdain for Europe in US Signal chat horrifies EU"Horrific to see in black and white.