Andrew Ferguson

Andrew Ferguson is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of Fools’ Names, Fools’ Faces; Land of Lincoln; and Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course on Getting His Kid Into College.

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Trump’s Attempt at an Un-Trumpian Image

Desperate times call for desperate measures.
- Andrew Ferguson
- July 30, 2020
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Christopher Buckley on Satire in the Age of Trump

“I think Trump is fair game for ridicule. Why do I think this? Because it drives him nuts.”
- Andrew Ferguson
- July 11, 2020
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Leave Lincoln Out of It

The Lincoln Project partakes of the spirit of a famous Republican president—but he’s not its namesake.
- Andrew Ferguson
- June 30, 2020
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Signs That Trump Was Furious in Tulsa

Watching the president read from a prompter is like watching a man slip into a straitjacket.
- Andrew Ferguson
- June 21, 2020
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‘Defund the Police’ Does Not Mean Defund the Police. Unless It Does.

Am I supposed to take it literally?
- Andrew Ferguson
- June 14, 2020
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At the End of a Hellish Week, Trump Is a Happy Man

Spending public money—he often speaks of it as his own—always lifts his spirits.
- Andrew Ferguson
- June 6, 2020
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Trump Tries to Sink Twitter, His Oldest Enabler

The president’s two strongest instincts stand pitted against each other: his need for attention and his need to punish enemies.
- Andrew Ferguson
- May 30, 2020
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Did Trump Really Take Hydroxychloroquine?

The evidence that the president was lying was strong. His lips were moving, for one thing. But perhaps this time he was telling the truth.
- Andrew Ferguson
- May 23, 2020
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Biden’s Virtual Campaign Is a Disaster

The candidate has reached the peak of his career in the rec room of his basement, talking into a computer.
- Andrew Ferguson
- May 15, 2020
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Trump Has a New Word Lump

The president is topping even the greatest geniuses in the world, if he does say so himself.
- Andrew Ferguson
- May 9, 2020
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Trump’s Unending Ability to Astonish

The most disorienting thing about the president isn’t that he lies so often but that he so often tells the truth.
- Andrew Ferguson
- May 6, 2020
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Trump Tries to Be Normal

And yet no week of president-watching will lack for oddities.
- Andrew Ferguson
- May 2, 2020
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Trump’s 5 O’Clock Follies

The president’s words have tremendous power, sending countless Americans to bed with nightmares of Clorox enemas.
- Andrew Ferguson
- April 25, 2020
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The Unclubbable Republican

Like lots of fanatics, Tom Coburn, the former Republican senator from Oklahoma, was at bottom a moralist.
- Andrew Ferguson
- April 1, 2020
Edmon De Haro

Springtime for Introverts

The world has caught up with us at last.
- Andrew Ferguson
- March 26, 2020
Arinze Stanley

The College President Who Simply Won’t Raise Tuition

Mitch Daniels has frozen Purdue’s tuition—at less than $10,000—for seven straight years.
- Andrew Ferguson
- April 2020 Issue
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Trump’s Beautiful Proposal for Federal Architecture

The classicists hope to address a problem that the architecture establishment does not see as a problem.
- Andrew Ferguson
- February 20, 2020
Cecilia Carlstedt

Abraham Lincoln’s Radical Moderation

What the president understood that the zealous Republican reformers in Congress didn’t
- Andrew Ferguson
- March 2020 Issue
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Iowa Forgot the Whole Point of the Caucus

The state got itself in trouble by deploying an untested app in a misbegotten attempt to rationalize itself.
- Andrew Ferguson
- February 4, 2020
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Historians Should Stay Out of Politics

A knowledge of history is no replacement for good judgment, which is what this moment calls for.
- Andrew Ferguson
- December 21, 2019

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