Zack Beauchamp
@zackbeauchamp.bsky.social
Senior Correspondent at Vox covering the crisis of global democracy. Author of The Reactionary Spirit, a book on that topic, and a '25-'26 distinguished visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House.
Getting rid of trade barriers preventing the sale of high-quality, cheap, environmentally friendly Chinese cars is good policy
January 16, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Getting rid of trade barriers preventing the sale of high-quality, cheap, environmentally friendly Chinese cars is good policy
Honestly impressed by Matt Stoller's ability to find the worst possible take on seemingly every issue
January 16, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Honestly impressed by Matt Stoller's ability to find the worst possible take on seemingly every issue
This is what losing looks like www.axios.com/2026/01/16/t...
Trump's immigration erosion worries his team
Some Trump advisers quietly are talking about "recalibrating" the White House's approach — though it's unclear what changes Trump would embrace, if any.
www.axios.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:42 PM
This is what losing looks like www.axios.com/2026/01/16/t...
The online right is reaching uncharted levels of weird
January 15, 2026 at 1:58 PM
The online right is reaching uncharted levels of weird
Overheard in the Toronto airport: “Did you hear Germany has sent troops to Greenland? We should send ours too.”
January 15, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Overheard in the Toronto airport: “Did you hear Germany has sent troops to Greenland? We should send ours too.”
Cab driver here in Brazil replies to my attempt at Portuguese with Spanish rather than English, and it honestly feels like half a win
January 14, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Cab driver here in Brazil replies to my attempt at Portuguese with Spanish rather than English, and it honestly feels like half a win
Between the popular backlash to ICE brutality and Jerome Powell‘s statement, we are getting more and more signs that Trump is failing to consolidate an authoritarian regime
January 12, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Between the popular backlash to ICE brutality and Jerome Powell‘s statement, we are getting more and more signs that Trump is failing to consolidate an authoritarian regime
I am in Brazil right now, where the big debate is whether the right-wing former president who attempted a coup should serve out his full prison sentence or have it reduced.
What could have been.
What could have been.
January 9, 2026 at 3:55 PM
I am in Brazil right now, where the big debate is whether the right-wing former president who attempted a coup should serve out his full prison sentence or have it reduced.
What could have been.
What could have been.
Finally saw the Stranger Things finale and it was...good? I had been led to believe it was a disappointment, and instead it was the same show it always has been
January 7, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Finally saw the Stranger Things finale and it was...good? I had been led to believe it was a disappointment, and instead it was the same show it always has been
For nearly a decade, I have been arguing that Trump was a neo-imperialist who believed in using force for crudely self-interested reasons. Many told me I was wrong, that Trump was some kind of "non-interventionist" dove.
This weekend, I was proven fully right.
www.vox.com/politics/474...
This weekend, I was proven fully right.
www.vox.com/politics/474...
Donald Trump was never a dove
How critics of American interventionism fell for a myth.
www.vox.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:07 PM
For nearly a decade, I have been arguing that Trump was a neo-imperialist who believed in using force for crudely self-interested reasons. Many told me I was wrong, that Trump was some kind of "non-interventionist" dove.
This weekend, I was proven fully right.
www.vox.com/politics/474...
This weekend, I was proven fully right.
www.vox.com/politics/474...
It is both true that Trump's intervention is about the oil AND that it makes no sense as a capitalist matter.
Trump likes the IDEA of taking oil from other countries and has for literal decades. But, as usual, he has no notion of the practicalities.
Trump likes the IDEA of taking oil from other countries and has for literal decades. But, as usual, he has no notion of the practicalities.
January 5, 2026 at 3:54 PM
It is both true that Trump's intervention is about the oil AND that it makes no sense as a capitalist matter.
Trump likes the IDEA of taking oil from other countries and has for literal decades. But, as usual, he has no notion of the practicalities.
Trump likes the IDEA of taking oil from other countries and has for literal decades. But, as usual, he has no notion of the practicalities.
Captain America in 1990
January 4, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Captain America in 1990
There are cabbages that aged better in ten years than this column
January 4, 2026 at 3:56 PM
There are cabbages that aged better in ten years than this column
Reposted by Zack Beauchamp
Who could of seen this deranged resource imperialist war-mongering coming from a supposedly "isolationist dove?"
Anyone who paid attention to what Trump actually said on the for his entire worthless life. I and others like @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social saw this coming clear back before Trump I.
Anyone who paid attention to what Trump actually said on the for his entire worthless life. I and others like @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social saw this coming clear back before Trump I.
January 3, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Who could of seen this deranged resource imperialist war-mongering coming from a supposedly "isolationist dove?"
Anyone who paid attention to what Trump actually said on the for his entire worthless life. I and others like @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social saw this coming clear back before Trump I.
Anyone who paid attention to what Trump actually said on the for his entire worthless life. I and others like @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social saw this coming clear back before Trump I.
Reposted by Zack Beauchamp
i think that people really underestimate reality that
1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man
2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually
3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas
1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man
2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually
3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas
January 3, 2026 at 11:15 AM
i think that people really underestimate reality that
1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man
2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually
3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas
1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man
2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually
3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas
Night two of my 2025 movie catchup was One Battle After Another. Interesting, definitely very good. But I think Sinners was better in nearly every respect
December 29, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Night two of my 2025 movie catchup was One Battle After Another. Interesting, definitely very good. But I think Sinners was better in nearly every respect
I’ve finally seen Sinners and now it’s all I want to talk about
December 28, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I’ve finally seen Sinners and now it’s all I want to talk about
This is how the anti-anti-Trump right always rationalizes authoritarianism: by making everything about the evils of the liberal elite.
www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-6...
www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-6...
December 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This is how the anti-anti-Trump right always rationalizes authoritarianism: by making everything about the evils of the liberal elite.
www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-6...
www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-6...
It turns out* that the secret to understanding Weiss' whole deal was her time as a Columbia undergrad trying to censor pro-Palestine professors
*many of us recognized this years ago
*many of us recognized this years ago
"Why is any of this okay with so many of those who once claimed to be free-speech champions or absolutists? Because, quite obviously, they were not."
I endorse. And admittedly feel some frustration it seems @adamserwer.bsky.social and others do too, having seen through this crowd clearly for years.
I endorse. And admittedly feel some frustration it seems @adamserwer.bsky.social and others do too, having seen through this crowd clearly for years.
The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
It turns out* that the secret to understanding Weiss' whole deal was her time as a Columbia undergrad trying to censor pro-Palestine professors
*many of us recognized this years ago
*many of us recognized this years ago
Reposted by Zack Beauchamp
The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
I think Bari Weiss is obviously acting as a Trump administration censor. But how she got there is interesting.
She tells herself a story about an elite media out of touch with "ordinary" Americans — which is to say, conservatives. So she thinks restoring trust in media means pleasing them.
She tells herself a story about an elite media out of touch with "ordinary" Americans — which is to say, conservatives. So she thinks restoring trust in media means pleasing them.
December 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I think Bari Weiss is obviously acting as a Trump administration censor. But how she got there is interesting.
She tells herself a story about an elite media out of touch with "ordinary" Americans — which is to say, conservatives. So she thinks restoring trust in media means pleasing them.
She tells herself a story about an elite media out of touch with "ordinary" Americans — which is to say, conservatives. So she thinks restoring trust in media means pleasing them.
I’ll be on at 11 for those of you interested in such things
December 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I’ll be on at 11 for those of you interested in such things
Like so many young men, this tragic bird thinks making loud pew-pew laser noises is a good reproductive strategy
A real treat to watch a male Lyrebird perform at the Healesville Sanctuary yesterday. Truly magnificent.
December 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Like so many young men, this tragic bird thinks making loud pew-pew laser noises is a good reproductive strategy
I don't share all of Matt's views on political strategy, but he's a very smart guy who genuinely thinks his approach is the best way to head off authoritarianism in America.
Reasonable people can disagree on hard questions like this! The way Matt deranges some people on here is not reasonable.
Reasonable people can disagree on hard questions like this! The way Matt deranges some people on here is not reasonable.
I think it's a little odd how people go in for this kind of nuclear-strength rhetoric over a disagreement about what issues it is most advantageous to talk about at the margin.
What you need to understand is @mattyglesias.bsky.social is a moral black hole and even then his depraved indifference brand of advice to democrats does not win elections
December 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I don't share all of Matt's views on political strategy, but he's a very smart guy who genuinely thinks his approach is the best way to head off authoritarianism in America.
Reasonable people can disagree on hard questions like this! The way Matt deranges some people on here is not reasonable.
Reasonable people can disagree on hard questions like this! The way Matt deranges some people on here is not reasonable.
The deal would put one of the biggest social media into the hands of an autocratic president's close allies
* ORACLE, SILVER LAKE, ANDREESSEN TO CONTROL TIKOK IN US: WSJ
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December 19, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The deal would put one of the biggest social media into the hands of an autocratic president's close allies