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Dec 30, 2024 | 
city-journal.org | Mathis Bitton
Michel Houellebecq is a writer of the after—after history, after God, after politics, after romance, and after happiness. He chronicles a world in which we watch ourselves live, poisoned by irony, oscillating between nihilism and hedonism, until the difference between the two becomes imperceptible. Houellebecq captures this post-world without adornment. His characters are lonely, sexless, and impotent. They seek something higher and seldom find it. They try to escape from their condition but cannot.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Greg Fournier |Mathis Bitton |Christian Gonzalez |Christian González |Mary Trimble
Culture Peter Singer's new book makes a compassionate case for your Thanksgiving turkey. Published November 23, 2024 When it comes to the morality of eating animal meat, human beings make many dubious distinctions. Cows make delicious steaks and burgers, but we are horrified at the thought of horse meat. Cats and dogs roam freely inside our houses, yet pigs get made into bacon. We wag our fingers at our whaling ancestors but hungrily consume tuna salad sandwiches.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Christian Gonzalez |Christian González |Mathis Bitton |Mary Trimble |Mustafa Akyol
Culture Alexandre Lefebvre’s new book passionately argues for fairness and freedom. By Published November 16, 2024 A great deal of academic work is often rather bloodless. The impersonal stylistic norms of the ivory tower make it easy to forget that academics also love, hate, lust, resent, envy, and in general experience the whole gamut of human emotions.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Kevin Williamson |Yuval Levin |Mathis Bitton |Cole Murphy
Published November 11, 2024 “When the three natural orders in society, the high, the middle, and the low, are all represented in the government, and constitutionally placed to watch each other, and restrain each other mutually by the laws, it is then only, that an emulation takes place for the public good, and divisions turn to the advantage of the nation.” John Adams Of course we shouldn’t trust the people. That’s one of the basic American ideas.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Jamie Weinstein |Yuval Levin |Mathis Bitton |Michael Reneau
The next president is inheriting a lot of geopolitical chaos. Published November 11, 2024 Jamie welcomes Rich Goldberg, a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and former National Security Council staffer during the Trump administration, to discuss the future of U.S. foreign policy under President-Elect Donald Trump. Together, they explore key strategies, potential challenges, and the incoming administration’s approach to global diplomacy.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Rachael Larimore |Mathis Bitton |Cole Murphy |Peter Gattuso
The former president returns to the White House, this time with a popular-vote victory. Published November 9, 2024 Hello and happy Saturday. We were ready for just about anything for the election. We published a guide to swing state election laws and procedures, Tuesday’s Morning Dispatch laid out when polls closed and explained when to expect results. The Dispatch Politics team talked to both Republicans and Democrats about how they’d feel if their side lost.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Chris Stirewalt |Kevin Williamson |Jonah Goldberg |Mathis Bitton
Making sense of the former president’s election win. Published November 9, 2024 People are throwing the word “landslide” around willy-nilly this week, and while President-elect Donald Trump certainly won a decisive victory and did so in much stronger fashion than his 2016 squeaker, landslide it ain’t. Trump will end up with 312 electoral votes, adding Nevada to his 2016 haul.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Mathis Bitton |Cole Murphy |Peter Gattuso
Published November 9, 2024 Jonah is rested, retrospective, and ready to discuss the beleaguered Democrats and those purporting that if you’d only listened to them, everything would have gone differently. He dives into the decisive issue of inflation, the Harris campaign’s refusal to break with the Biden administration, the danger of conflating Republican issues with “white issues,” and the problem with the idea of a political mandate.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Chris Stirewalt |Mathis Bitton |Cole Murphy |Peter Gattuso
Published November 9, 2024 People are throwing the word “landslide” around willy-nilly this week, and while President-elect Donald Trump certainly won a decisive victory and did so in much stronger fashion than his 2016 squeaker, landslide it ain’t. Trump will end up with 312 electoral votes, adding Nevada to his 2016 haul. That puts him at 57.99 percent of the Electoral College, tied with James Garfield in the election of 1880 at 44th biggest victory out of 60 presidential elections.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Mathis Bitton |Mary Trimble |Elayne Allen |Stephanie Murray
The 20th-century American philosopher Robert Nozick once coined a thought experiment that has since become a classic in “Introduction to Ethics” classes: the “experience machine.” Imagine, he proposed, that a machine could grant you any experience you wanted. You could travel the world, taste the finest foods, experience intense love—the machine would know no bounds but those of your imagination.
