Professor, Provocateur, Professional Nuisance
An Institution Has Commissioned A Review Of Its Own Commissioning Process, And I Find This Genuinely Admirable | The editor’s diary on the rare moment bureaucratic self-reference achieves something like honesty
Ongoing Civil Liberties Debates: Liberty, Security, and the Arguments That Never End | Surveillance, Free Speech on the Internet, Gun Control, Reproductive Rights, and the Constitutional Disputes That Define Every Generation
The Bill of Rights: Ten Amendments, Infinite Arguments | Core Constitutional Protections, Their Interpretations, and the Remarkable Fact That Ten Sentences Have Produced 235 Years of Litigation
Strategic Recalibration Is What A Government Calls A Failure It Would Rather Not Name Directly | The editor’s diary on the vocabulary institutions reach for when the word mistake feels too honest
Accountability and Oversight: Who Watches the Watchmen, and Are They Paying Attention? | Congressional Oversight, Inspector Generals, GAO Reports, and the Perennial Question of Whether Anyone Is Actually in Charge
The Ideological Spectrum and Cultural Divides: How Geography, Religion, and Education Became Political Identity | Regional Political Cultures, Demographic Sorting, the Urban-Rural Divide, and the Discovery That Where You Live Predicts How You Vote Better Than What You Think
America Brings the Bombers and I Have Worn Ear Defenders to Worse Dates | The United States is flying combat missions from British soil.
Editor’s Diary: A Decade Of Revolving Doors, And What We Keep Refusing To Ask About Why | Five prime ministers in roughly a decade is not a coincidence, and treating each departure as a standalone story misses the actual pattern
Diary of a Man Who Thinks Prat.uk Is a Daily Briefing | This Is My Cabinet Meeting
The Orthodox Communist Reads The Manifesto Once More | Anything After 1924 Is Suspicious