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Category Archives: Christopher Caldwell
Status Closure and The Lost Generation
Donald Trump Batters The Credential Society On Christmas Eve—or Nittel Nacht, as we call it in the tribe—I was doing my level best to avoid studying Torah. To distract myself, I opened the Perlego app (the Netflix of textbooks!) and … Continue reading
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An Independent Fed Is an Unaccountable Fed
Christopher Caldwell writes Sep/ 19, 2025: For half a century, modern central banks have seen their role in policymaking grow steadily. At the close of Jimmy Carter’s presidential term in 1980, his Fed chairman, Paul Volcker, rescued the country from … Continue reading
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The Shot That Changed America
Christopher Caldwell writes July 13, 2025: Certainly, the attack shaped the election. It changed the moral climate. In the spring of 2024, four criminal prosecutions dating to Trump’s first term approached resolution almost simultaneously. They had been strung along by … Continue reading
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The Netflix Christopher Caldwell Roast
ChatGPT: COLD OPEN (slo-mo hype reel, orchestral boom) NARRATOR (NFL Films voice): “He rewrote the game by insisting the game was rewritten. He saw a second constitution where others saw a footnote. He stares down progress the way Brady stares … Continue reading
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The Christopher Caldwell Comedy Central Roast
ChatGPT: (Live from a library that smells like cigar smoke and constitutional law textbooks) Host (Jon Stewart–style): “Tonight we roast Christopher Caldwell: the only man who can get both The New York Times and a Federalist Society intern to say, … Continue reading
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Christopher Caldwell’s ‘radicalism is so refined, it’s uncanceleable’
Christopher Caldwell is simultaneously the most right wing radical intellectual in polite society (he publishes in the New York Times, The New Republic, etc) today and the most respected right winger by the left. The left-wing podcast Know Your Enemy … Continue reading
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Trump-Proofing Is Anti-Democratic
The same people who argue that Donald Trump represents a mortal threat to democracy are also doing everything they can to Trump-proof and render the election of Donald Trump as meaningless as possible. Christopher Caldwell writes: European diplomats and their … Continue reading
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The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties
Christopher Caldwell writes in this 2020 book: Men took feminism as a straightforward indictment of their own attitudes. They were right to. Sexism as Bird defined it was everywhere. The succinct explanation that New York Times war correspondent David Halberstam … Continue reading
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