Essay | Winter 2025
Jon Askonas
Jon Askonas is assistant professor of politics at the Catholic University of America and a senior fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation.
In The New Atlantis
Essay | Summer 2023
Essay | Spring 2023
What Was the Fact?
Here lies a beloved friend of social harmony (ca. 1500–2000). It was nice while it lasted.
Essay | Summer 2022
How Stewart Made Tucker
A world of authentic, post-spin journalism: The dream Jon Stewart spent a decade making real is now America’s waking nightmare. What did he get so wrong?
Essay | Spring 2022
Essay | Spring 2022
Reality Is Just a Game Now
Scoring points, hunting for clues, building plotlines, revealing the Grand Narrative... Why are people acting like the national fracture is fun?
Review | Summer 2019
All Activities Monitored
How military drone technology is quietly creeping into policing, business, and everyday life
Essay | Winter 2019
How Tech Utopia Fostered Tyranny
Authoritarians’ love for digital technology is no fluke — it’s a product of Silicon Valley’s “smart” paternalism.