Eyes on the Right

1 week ago | damonlinker.substack.com | Damon Linker

Upgrade to paid to play voiceoverRegular readers know I have a sincere interest in conservative ideas and take reactionary hopes and discontents pretty seriously. My own liberalism is even informed by certain conservative insights into human nature and society. But this intellectual focus sits uneasily with longstanding hostility toward the Republican Party, America’s vehicle for the political right. For a brief period (2000 through 2002), I voted for the GOP.

1 week ago | damonlinker.substack.com | Damon Linker

Sorry, no audio version of this post from me today. In the aftermath of the Big Move, my whole family has come down with colds. If I tried to record this post, the result would be unlistenable, with coughs and sniffles causing constant interruptions to the flow of words. I trust I’ll be feel better enough to record an audio file for my next post toward the end of the week. The Linker family move, which led me to pause posting here over the past two weeks, is finally complete. What did I miss?

4 weeks ago | damonlinker.substack.com | Damon Linker

Upgrade to paid to play voiceoverIt’s probably a perennial fact of life—and certainly a fact of political life at the present moment—that people who value verbal and conceptual fluency tend to overstate the power of words and concepts in the world. The examples are almost too numerous to mention.

1 month ago | damonlinker.substack.com | Damon Linker

Upgrade to paid to play voiceoverIf you recently subscribed to “Notes from the Middleground” after reading my essay in Persuasion about teaching “Trump 2.0” this last semester at Penn, welcome! I’m happy to have you here. My posts, usually published twice a week, appear in one of three newsletters: Eyes on the Right, Looking Left, and Above the Fray. The overwhelming majority end up in Eyes on the Right. That includes nearly everything I’ve written here since the 2024 election.

1 month ago | damonlinker.substack.com | Damon Linker

U.S. President Donald Trump holds up a printed article from "American Thinker" while accusing South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa of state-sanctioned violence against white farmers in South Africa during a press availability in the Oval Office at the White House on May 21, 2025 in Washington, DC.