Archive - Political Currents by Ross Barkan

Can Andrew Cuomo Actually Be Stopped?

Cuomo for mayor, one month later

Mar 31 •

In Defense of Cultural Elites

My address to Yale

Mar 26 •

The Zohran Effect

A leftist takes off

Mar 20 •

The Vanishing Genius

On time and ambition

Mar 17 •

The latest entrant into the NYC mayoral race

Mar 13 •

The Reading Life

Mar 9 •

Andrew Cuomo Is Not Inevitable

The state of play

Mar 3 •

February 2025

Who Is Going to be the Next Mayor of New York?

The field takes shape

Feb 26 •

The Rise of the New Romanticism

On our culture and its discontents

Feb 20 •

Common Sense and Sensibility

Thoughts on a new magazine

Feb 14 •

Eric Adams Doomed Himself

The end of a corruption trial will only help him so much

Feb 11 •

My Father and the Trumps

A strange blast from the past

Feb 7 •

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