Trump has a lot of authoritarian tendencies that need to be a serious concern.

We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party.

Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came before it.

That's an important Obama accomplishment: he raised taxes back to Bill Clinton levels, and made a major dent in inequality doing so. That's certain to be reversed, that's going to disappear. The Republicans are going to slash the rich's taxes.

Trump is what Obama critics think Obama is: Someone who's focused on symbolism rather than substance.

Barack Obama is extremely smart.

Illiberal left ideology has its greatest strength on campuses because campuses are one of the few places in American life where a certain kind of far-left politics can actually impose hegemony on other ideas and really control the discourse in a way it can't in most places in American life where even moderate liberals are more of a minority.