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Samuel Moyn

Samuel Moyn is a professor of law and history at Yale University. His most recent book is Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times (Harvard University Press, 2018).
Articles by Samuel Moyn

Democracy and Elitism on the Left and Right

“They’re not all crypto-fascists and right-wing nut jobs,” comments Kendall Roy, the scion of his late father’s media empire on the show Succession, the night before he and his kid brother enthrone a politician answering to that description as America’s newest president. “We also have some venture capital Dems and centrist ghouls. Dad’s ideological range was . . . wide.” So was the ideological range of the Republican Party over the last fifty years. And so it still is…

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The Road to Hell

The overall thrust of Power’s argument is to deny the need for any accounting of how good intentions can drive perverse results in the use of state power abroad. Only copping to forgivable or unintentional mistakes, it pushes back against the possibility of ethical com­promise in crossing the Rubicon from government critic to government service…

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