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2016 election

What Tropics of Meta Knows About Politics

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Our people are troubled, but they wrote a lot of good shit.

Alex Sayf Cummings October 29, 2020 Best of, elections, politics

A Modest Proposal for the Electoral College

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Some argue for scrapping the Electoral College. But would a more proportional allocation of electoral votes work just as well?

Stephen Cohen November 9, 2019 Donald Trump, elections, Hillary Clinton, politics

Midnight in Atlanta: Thinking about the Catastrophe Two Years Later

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No real best-of this week.  Instead, we at Tropics of Meta are taking stock of the extraordinary and […]

Alex Sayf Cummings November 2, 2018 politics

Trump, Brexit, and the Abject Poverty of Liberalism

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Two seemingly monumental and world-historic events occurred in two of the most powerful imperialist countries this past year. […]

Gordon R. Barnes Jr. January 20, 2017 conservatism, Donald Trump, more conservatism, politics, the Left

Sorry, Folks, but Trump Really Is Different

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Trump is different. Wow—a really big breakthrough discovery, huh? Maybe it is. Some contributors to this discussion seem determined […]

Casey Baskin November 7, 2016 conservatism, Donald Trump, elections, Is Trump Sui Generis?, more conservatism, politics, race

Trump doth bestride the narrow world, like a tiny-handed Colossus…

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Is Trump sui generis? The culmination of forty years of oblique race-baiting in the GOP? A reality television […]

H. Robert Baker November 1, 2016 Donald Trump, elections, Is Trump Sui Generis?, politics

Reckoning Trump through a Joan Didion Lens

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“We’re in a new world in terms of the way information flows to the nation,” Chicago Tribune deputy […]

Guest October 28, 2016 conservatism, Donald Trump, Is Trump Sui Generis?, politics, sexuality, Uncategorized

There Is a There There: Trump Is Hardly Sui Generis

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I remember almost ten years ago, the normally sagacious Economist commented on the looming 2008 race.  “The smart […]

Alex Sayf Cummings October 25, 2016 conservatism, Donald Trump, elections, Is Trump Sui Generis?, more conservatism, politics, race

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