Daniel Bessner

Larry David is the last of his kind—and in several ways.

Film and television writers face an existential threat.

“The End of History?” was an announcement of victory. But a quarter-century later, its author remains unsure if liberalism truly won.

Real democratic participation in foreign policy is almost unimaginable today—but this wasn’t always the case.

For nearly a century, Americans have been throwing the term around—without agreeing what that means.

How the turn toward “precision” combat promoted endless war.

The cultural contradictions of Call of Duty.

Since its emergence in the middle of the twentieth century, the American Empire has been fueled by the search for an enemy.

Why is U.S. foreign policy dominated by an unelected, often reckless cohort of “the best and the brightest”?

George Soros after the open society.

Comparing Trump's America to fascist Germany only fuels elites' antidemocratic fantasies.