Zack Beauchamp

Some personal news: I'm going to be leaving Vox after 12 years (!!) to start not one, but two new projects! The details are still under wraps, but I can tell you that I'll still be writing about the crisis of democracy, the far-right, and liberalism's future. Looking forward to sharing more soon!

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

Brazil will get more attention either way it goes, but this is truly an incredible victory for the student protesters. We ran this in March 2025, which explained the movement's strengths but seemed overly optimist in the months that followed. 18 months later, they succeeded. Gen Z strikes again.

My first freelance piece outlines precisely how Benjamin Netanyahu will dismantle what's left of Israeli democracy if he wins tomorrow's election — and why the opposition's stubborn refusal to engage with Palestinians is helping him get there libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

Today was the best day for global democracy in quite a while.

Wrote this back in February www.vox.com/politics/479...

Been thinking of @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social's article on the various Reconstruction Papers-like efforts going on. The right had a top-down project from Heritage. We have a distributed but COORDINATED effort drawing on a more diverse array of people. And that's GOOD! www.vox.com/politics/505...

It's pretty funny to be like "Evil '60s Rawlsian liberalism is why we're not allowed to be prejudiced against Muslim Senate candidates" when Article 6 of the Constitution states "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States"

The intellectual right, following the base, is now publishing an "elevated" defense of religious bigotry www.dailywire.com/news/the-pol...

What the alien on Lanterns wishes he said to Hal Jordan

A big govt reform package should be a pillar of Dem 2029 agenda @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social covers the smart planning taking place to: a) make govt work better (abundance-style) (both Obama and Biden’s terms showed govt doesn’t work well enough) and b) protect govt from executive overreach

Very pleased that our new essay collection "The Thinkers and Philosophers of the Far Right" has been approved. Including contributors like Laura Field, Ronald Beiner, @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social and many others we are going to examine the history, ideology, and role of far-right intellectuals.

I was gratified to see The Reconstruction Papers mentioned in a @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social article about policymakers looking ahead to 2029. We could use your help continuing to put out work aimed at shaping those choices www.liberalcurrents.com/the-message-...

Now, Democrats are developing their own equivalent to the GOP’s Project 2025 — a radical new vision for remaking the US government if they take power in 2028. Read more from @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social:

For how these ideas turn into 2029 plans, read @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social's epic piece for @voxdotcom.bsky.social - which cites Roosevelt'ers @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social @awhf.bsky.social @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social @rdnayak.bsky.social. www.vox.com/politics/505...

DOGE and Russ Vought’s OMB have worked to dismantle large parts of the federal government. But rebuilding can't mean returning to the status quo. We need to rethink how government works so it can actually deliver for people. @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social explores what's next for government reform: 🧵

A very literal descent into barbarism

If you are arguing that there is no innocent [person of any nationality whatsoever] then you are making the case for genocide

Fantasy football flex start question: Alvin Kamara, Malik Washington, or Ollie Gordon II

"Something will crack. The nonsuburban electorate will decide that the system has failed and start looking for a strongman to vote for...All the sadism which the academic Left has tried to make unacceptable to its students will come flooding back." - Richard Rorty, ACHIEVING OUR COUNTRY, 1998

feels like there is a group of smart and well-intentioned people who long ago made up their minds that AI Is Bad, swore off using it, and now get all their info about AI from each other. not saying they're wrong that ai is bad! but i think they're gradually losing touch with what it is and does

People used to see philosophical ethics and philosophy of mind as flights of fancy that we, as a society, funded because they were abstractly interesting. In the AI era, they've become two of the most relevant fields of inquiry to the human future. A pretty good argument for academic freedom!

Here’s a (weird) explanation for why America.gov sends a (much weirder) 1,808-word response when you write “Play Minecraft.” gizmodo.com/trumps-new-a...

I’ve never been in denial about it but I do think today was the first day I truly realized how much antisemitism is spreading and being normalized in online far-left circles. It’s scary and frightening and is only going to get worse if the left insists it’s not a problem.

This is the funniest thing to happen in the Senate in a long time

Nobody seems to bat an eye that Rufo's podcast partner is a longtime anonymous troll who called gays "f*ggots," referred to Asians as "mongoloids," and explicitly sees his partnership with Rufo as a strategy of normalizing what most of us would see as bigotry www.vox.com/politics/368...

I know this list is engagement bait by design, but the idea that LOST would be 70 spots ahead of COMMUNITY is preposterous www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"If Pilkington is right that post-Cold War liberals don’t have a good understanding of why their world is falling apart, neither did the postliberals after Magyar’s win." www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...

I think it's unfortunate that people are polarizing against a movement that has saved millions from preventable diseases and was ahead of everyone on AI risk

One thing I learned from Hungary is that moving on the free press requires overwhelming dominance. If an authoritarian can't shutter the vast majority of opposition media quickly, voters will simply shift to different free outlets — and get angrier at both the state and its would-be mouthpieces

Today on The Daily Blast, @gregsargent.bsky.social talks to @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social about Trump’s fury at Canada growing so Unhinged that even GOPers are rattled... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... youtu.be/5nG-ytzO6nA