This week’s articles of note
“The left, the right, and the constitution,” National Review, by Yuval Levin
“Getting away with it,” New York Review of Books, by Paul Krugman and Robin Wells [Review of three books on American politics]
“Despite Obama’s policies, the Rust Belt’s revival could save his campaign,” Daily Beast, by Joel ...
Re-opening the American mind
Twenty-five years on, a re-read of Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind reveals just how wrong liberals were to hate it, and how wrong conservatives were to claim it as their ideological bible.
Read my ...
This week’s articles of note
“Hope: the sequel,” New York Magazine, by John Heilemann
“The 1 percent’s problem,” Vanity Fair, by Joseph E. Stiglitz
“Mary Meeker’s latest stunning presentation about the state of the web,” Business Insider, by Nicholas Carlson
“Is America philosophical?” The Chronicle of Higher Education, by Carlin Romano
“The Amazon effect,” ...
This week’s articles of note
“The service patch,” New York Times, by David Brooks
“Our age of anxiety,” Weekly Standard, by Yuval Levin
“The Facebook illusion,” New York Times, by Ross Douthat
“Lunch with the FT: Paul Krugman,” Financial Times. Martin Wolf interviews Krugman
“How Roland Barthes gave us the TV recap,” New York ...
The liberal case against gay marriage
Following on from my spiked article on the gay marriage debate, I recommend an essay I found by Susan M. Shell, “The liberal case against gay marriage”. Published in The Public Interest in the summer of 2004, it remains highly relevant.
Shell makes the important point that “the most ...
This week’s articles of note
“Joe Sixpack get lost!” The Daily Caller, by Mickey Kaus
‘The class divide deepens,” National Journal, by Ronald Brownstein
“Liberal intolerance and Naomi Riley’s firing,” Real Clear Politics, by Cathy Young
“OWS RIP,” The American Interest, by Walter Russell Mead
“Why I think Obama is losing,” The Atlantic, by ...
Why I’m coming out…against gay marriage
A New York progressive braves the opprobrium of his peers by questioning same-sex marriage.
Read my spiked article in full here.
Obama vs Romney: who do you hate least?
Both Obama and Romney are now tossed between public enthusiasm and public disdain, showing just how volatile this campaign has become.
Read my spiked article in full here.
This week’s articles of note
“America’s crisis of character,” Wall Street Journal, by Peggy Noonan
“A nation of spoiled brats,” Foreign Policy. David Rothkopf interviews Edward Luce, author of Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent
“Joel Kotkin: The great California exodus,” Wall Street Journal. Allysia Finley interviews Kotkin
“Obama’s race ...
ABOUT SEAN COLLINS
I write about American current affairs for Spiked, the online magazine. I am a native New Yorker, and I divide my time between New York City and upstate New York.
In addition to articles for Spiked, The Australian and other publications, I contributed an essay, "BDS: Demonizing Israel, Destroying Free Speech," for the book Unsafe Space: The Crisis of Free Speech on Campus (2016). I also wrote a chapter on New York City's economy for the book London After Recession: A Fictitious Capital? (2012).
My writings have been cited in American Conservative, Arts & Letters Daily, the Financial Times, Fox News, the Huffington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, the New York Times, Real Clear Politics, and the Times of London, among other media.
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