Meritocracy, which underpins many of our most basic assumptions about our society, is looking increasingly threadbare as an organizing principle.

If liberals should worry about occasionally and inadvertently offending working-class whites, conservatives should worry much more about the deliberate and ongoing insult that Trump’s presidency represents.

The court may find that it does, but that doesn’t mean Harvard or any other university should switch to purely objective, merit-based criteria for admissions.

Conservatives’ hardball tactics in moving the Supreme Court rightward could undercut its most important asset.

The Court’s latest case shows how overly broad conceptions of civil rights protections have turned important laws against themselves, like an overactive immune system that consumes its host.

It’s messy and open ended, like politics, where even well justified policies often involve some moral arbitrariness.

What is new is not identity politics, but politics as identity—and it’s driving a culture of grievance.

Marvel’s latest blockbuster serves the classic function of myth—to provide a poetic account of the political ethics of a community.

Or, why attire matters.

Trumpism is not a simple retread of the white supremacy of the past, but a new form of the self-destructive politics of ressentiment.