Donald Trump is going to need fit, aggressive, and competent young men to fix this country. What are you training today? How are you credentialing yourself?
Lindsey Graham spent the last years of his life unleashing the greatest immigration enforcement regime in U.S. history, leading the Big Beautiful Bill and the Secure America Act in the Senate. For that, he was a patriot.
We are pleased to announce the launch of Rubicon, a new quarterly of books and ideas.
Every journal makes a wager about what its readers can bear: how much difficulty, how much dissent, and how much of the past. Our wager is that they can bear quite a lot. Elsewhere, opinion arrives without argumentation and the facts of history arrive flattened into whatever narrative is needed by present expediencies. We are betting on the alternative: that a reader will follow an essay of six thousand words if the thinking is honest, and that ideas outside the current consensus deserve the same attention as those inside it.
Rubicon exists because the essay-review—long-form, argued, unhurried—has become an endangered form of thought. Our inaugural issue attempts to reinvigorate that tradition by bringing together eight essay-reviews spanning left-wing political violence, Cold War diplomacy, civil rights law, fin-de-siècle Vienna, Hollywood’s rise and fall, the ideological ferment of interwar Italy and France, and generative anthropology.
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🚨#BREAKING: Trump calls for the removal of foreign-born Judge Sparkle Sooknanan after she struck down the administration’s proof-of-citizenship voting rule.