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May 14, 2024 · In his new book, Rebellion, the historian Robert Kagan proposes to resolve it by splitting the difference. Against the prevailing wisdom, which falls on one side or the other of this chasm, Kagan argues that the contending visions of Trump as either a premodern populist or a contemporary conservative is a distinction without much difference.
May 13, 2024 · For those of us who understand our 248-year experiment in democracy is in unique peril this election year but perhaps still wonder, “How has it come to this?” Robert Kagan provides a comprehensive and compelling answer — and fuels our existential dread and sleepless nights — in Rebellion.
May 15, 2024 · ROBERT KAGAN: Right. BILL KRISTOL: And they were happy to be in the Klan. And it was a networking thing and so forth. The whole ’24 Democratic Convention turns on a refusal, if I’m not mistaken, to repudiate the Klan by one of our two major parties. ROBERT KAGAN: Right, right. The Democratic Party could not repudiate the Klan.
Apr 30, 2024 · Review of Robert Kagan, Rebellion. How Antiliberalism Is Tearing American Apart – Again (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2024). What we are witnessing in US politics these days is not a regular battle, not just the usual partisan fight, but an antiliberal rebellion that threatens the liberal constitutional order – and it is far from certain that ...
Apr 30, 2024 · Kagan—a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and an editor-at-large for The Washington Post—tracks this anti-liberal streak from the nation’s founding all the way to today’s MAGA ...
May 2, 2024 · Robert Kagan Takes the Long View on Trumpism. His essay warning that dictatorship was a real threat went viral, which prompted the early release of “Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing ...
May 15, 2024 · Drawing especially on the 1920s, Kagan explains the competing traditions of liberalism and anti-liberalism in American history. 39:37 - 1:19:21. On anti-liberalism in America, from the 1920s to the 2020s.
