Stephen Holmes

THE WRITER, PROFESSOR OF LAW AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW AND RICHARD HOLBROOKE FELLOW AT THE AMERICAN ACADEMY IN BERLIN, IS THE CO-AUTHOR (WITH IVAN KRASTEV) OF THE LIGHT THAT FAILED: A RECKONING

Most of US President Donald Trump’s temporal nihilism operates on longer, less-legible timelines.

Trump is spending tomorrow’s security today

Neither incompetence nor impulsiveness explains the US president’s decision to start a war