Shadi Hamid
Columnist and Editorial Board Member at The Washington Post
Co-Founder at Wisdom of Crowds
Columnist @WashingtonPost; Research prof @FullerSeminary. Co-host @wcrowdslive. Views my own. Order my book THE PROBLEM OF DEMOCRACY: https://t.co/eFImj77MJc
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1 day ago |
wisdomofcrowds.live | Shadi Hamid
I’m not as “open-minded” as I used to be. This puts me in a somewhat awkward position as someone who has long argued that basically nothing — and no one — should be beyond the pale when it comes to debating, short of actual, current members of terrorist organizations and admitted white supremacists. Wisdom of Crowdsis against consensus, so we seek out difference even when it’s uncomfortable. That’s the point.
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2 days ago |
washingtonpost.com | Shadi Hamid
The GOP has made an unexpected, unintended turn (washingtonpost.com) The GOP has made an unexpected, unintended turn By Shadi Hamid 2025051210302400 Something extraordinary has happened to the Republican Party, though it hasn't quite been named. As I watched President Donald Trump gleefully announce his "Liberation Day" tariffs in early April, markets tumbled and economic forecasts grew dire.
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3 days ago |
wisdomofcrowds.live | Damir Marusic |Shadi Hamid |David Polansky
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -47:27Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Our special guest this week, is a political theorist and commentator who lives in Canada. A frequent contributor to Wisdom of Crowds, he joins and to discuss two excellent recent essays.
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1 week ago |
washingtonpost.com | Shadi Hamid
I was worried it wouldn’t happen this time. But it did. When I arrived back in the United States after a trip abroad, the immigration officer said to me, “welcome home.”It’s such a small thing, really. Two words uttered casually by a government official doing his job. In the grand scheme of political upheaval, it hardly seems worth mentioning. And yet, those two words contain multitudes. They represent something profound about American identity that persists despite our best efforts to destroy it.
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1 week ago |
wisdomofcrowds.live | Christine Emba |Damir Marusic |Shadi Hamid
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -48:57Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Trump has been in office for one hundred days, and thinks America deserves him: “I do tend to intuitively see Trump and Trumpism as a correction on a social order that has lost its way and is somehow badly out of tune,” Damir wrote earlier this week. “Something is broken and unsustainable, and has been so for a while.” and have questions.
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If this isn’t genocide, the word genocide has no meaning. It will be remembered as one of the great crimes of the century. And the moral stain will never be lifted.
“We estimate that the true number of people killed directly by the war in Gaza could be as high as 109,000.” A new Economist article says deaths caused directly by violence (bombings, shootings, traumatic injuries), not indirect causes, may be more than twice as high as reported
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RT @AsadFromNYC: Poignant essay by @shadihamid on what it means to hear "Welcome Home" from a US immigration officer at the airport: "Perh…
