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 week ago |
washingtonpost.com | Shadi Hamid
The dangerous pattern in Trump’s targeting of student activists (washingtonpost.com) The dangerous pattern in Trump’s targeting of student activists By Shadi Hamid 2025041619052200 What makes Donald Trump an unusual president isn't his ideology, because he largely lacks one. After all, he takes pride in his transactional approach to politics, vacillating — sometimes wildly — between positions depending on his whims and interests. This isn't a surprise.
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1 week ago |
wisdomofcrowds.live | Shadi Hamid |Damir Marusic |Oren Cass
It’s been an exceptionally crazy week, even by Trump-era standards. So we decided to experiment with the podcast this week by doing a live-stream recording. and discuss whether there is a method to Trump’s madness about tariffs and everything else — or whether we have to accept that we are ruled by a Mad King, who himself does not know what he will do from one moment to the next.
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1 week ago |
wisdomofcrowds.live | Shadi Hamid |Damir Marusic
We’re going live! In light of the tariff craziness and global market turmoil, and will get together to see if there is any way to make sense of things. It will be just like a podcast but live streamed, so you can submit questions in real time on the chat!We’ll be doing it today at 6 pm EST. Join us! We’ll be talking about how to make sense of our odd (and increasingly frightening) political moment. To watch on your computer, you’ll get an email when we go live.
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2 weeks ago |
washingtonpost.com | Shadi Hamid
Love it or hate it, you can’t dismiss this Republican’s defense of tariffs (washingtonpost.com) Love it or hate it, you can’t dismiss this Republican’s defense of tariffs By Shadi Hamid 2025041010300300 The consensus on free trade — one of the few things Democrats and Republicans in Washington managed to agree on for decades — is crumbling.
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2 weeks ago |
washingtonpost.com | Shadi Hamid
Hackers locked me out of X for 30 hours. My reaction surprised me. (washingtonpost.com) Hackers locked me out of X for 30 hours. My reaction surprised me. By Shadi Hamid 2025040709450000 It wasn't the end of the world. But, for a moment, it felt as though it might be. Last week, my X account was hacked, and whoever had control decided to post crypto scams in my name as well as a deepfake video of me claiming my account was safe.
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It’s been several weeks and still no one’s been able to offer even a shred of evidence that Mahmoud Khalil “hates America.” It’s a completely made up accusation without even the pretense of being true.
Mahmoud Khalil hates the United States and what we stand for—so his removal should come as welcome news. It is a privilege to be granted a visa or green card to live and study in the United States of America. When you advocate for violence, glorify and support terrorists that
RT @mehdirhasan: Has Douglas Murray been to Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Iran, or China? If not, why is he commenting on the level of freedom there…
Regardless of how tariffs play out in 90 days, President Trump can already claim a pre-emptive policy victory. We’re playing on Trump’s playing field. The Overton window has shifted. Tariffs are now fair game, and they probably will be for the rest of our lives, unless they fail
