Trump Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/trump/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:38:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Trump Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/trump/ 32 32 Toward the Next American University: A Roundtable Discussion on the Future of Higher Ed https://www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-next-american-university-a-roundtable-discussion-on-the-future-of-higher-ed-1/ Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:00:33 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60869 The path higher education was on before Trump’s reelection was neither certain nor stable. There is not much to go back to now.

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]]> In the Führerbunker with Carlyle and Yarvin https://www.publicbooks.org/in-the-fuhrerbunker-with-carlyle-and-yarvin/ Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:00:04 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60113 Curtis Yarvin—and, through him, arguably, Thomas Carlyle—has now emerged as a significant source of ideas for the present administration.

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]]> “Lying in Politics”: Hannah Arendt’s Antidote to Anticipatory Despair https://www.publicbooks.org/lying-in-politics-hannah-arendts-antidote-to-anticipatory-despair/ Wed, 21 May 2025 15:00:52 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59703 Four months in, the new Trump administration is already moving from self-deception and deception on to “image making” and “ideologizing”; it is fast approaching complete “defactualization.”

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]]> “Dignity Matters as Much as Material Needs”: Michèle Lamont on Recognition Claims and Understanding American Politics https://www.publicbooks.org/dignity-matters-as-much-as-material-needs-michele-lamont-on-recognition-claims-and-understanding-american-politics/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 15:00:48 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53450 “To recognize the existence of injuries requires the recognition of others and their dignity.”

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]]> How the U.S. Weaponized COVID against Migrants https://www.publicbooks.org/how-the-us-weaponized-covid-against-migrants/ Mon, 02 Aug 2021 15:00:12 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=44585 Immigrants in the United States during the pandemic faced the same discrimination, disenfranchisement, violence, and terror as before—only intensified.[none-for-homepage]

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]]> Your Prius Is Not Enough https://www.publicbooks.org/your-prius-is-not-enough/ Wed, 16 Aug 2017 15:00:49 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=14940 Many of those who voted for Donald Trump were elated by his withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement. For Trump supporters, environmentalism is a dirty word, and like other policies designed to protect the natural world, the Paris accord was bad for American jobs, foisted on the country by out-of-touch tree huggers. Environmentalists, the stereotype […]

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]]> How Ayn Rand Got into the White House https://www.publicbooks.org/how-ayn-rand-got-into-the-white-house/ Thu, 29 Jun 2017 15:00:40 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=13769 Even though the Trump administration seems to be conducting policy by Twitter, texts longer than 140 characters are rumored to be central to its worldview ...

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]]> How Conservatives Waged a War on Expertise https://www.publicbooks.org/how-conservatives-waged-a-war-on-expertise/ Mon, 15 May 2017 15:00:22 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=12612 Donald Trump rooted his antiestablishment campaign in an attack on government, political parties, and the media. As president, he has escalated ...

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]]> @X: Making America White 200 Years Ago https://www.publicbooks.org/making-america-white-200-years-ago/ Fri, 17 Feb 2017 16:00:45 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=10267 In January 1817, more than three thousand African Americans gathered in Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia ...

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