David Samuels

David Samuels is the editor of County Highway, a new American magazine in the form of a 19th-century newspaper. He is Tablet’s literary editor.

Rapid-Onset Political Enlightenment
How Barack Obama built an omnipotent thought-machine, and how it was destroyed
byDavid Samuels
FICTION
The Tunnel
byDavid Samuels
Op Nation
Why Tucker Carlson became America’s conspiracist-in-chief
byDavid Samuels
The Portal
Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and stepping back into American history
byDavid Samuels
There Is Only One America Worth Saving
Without fixing America, there is no saving yourselves and your families
byDavid Samuels
What Now?
How to feel, and what to do, one month after the massacres
byTony Badran,Stephanie Butnick,Liel Leibovitz,Park MacDougald,Sheila Nazarian,Alana Newhouse,Armin Rosen,David Samuels,Jeremy Stern,Izabella Tabarovsky,Bari Weiss,Ani Wilcenski,andKathryn Wolf
The Chained Reader
How the logic of machines makes us less human
byDavid Samuels
The Obama Factor
A Q&A with historian David Garrow
byDavid Samuels
The RFK Jr. Tapes
The Democratic presidential candidate and America’s most prominent ‘conspiracy theorist’ talks about his family, the military-pharmaceutical complex, and our new system of social control
byDavid Samuels
Notre Guerre
A graphic look at the Paris premiere of Bernard-Henri Lévy’s new doc, ‘Slava Ukraini’
byAleksi CavaillezandDavid Samuels
‘Ukraine Must Win’: A Q&A With Boris Johnson
A Tablet exclusive from the Kyiv Jewish Forum
byDavid Samuels
The Rower
A story about karma
byDavid Samuels
Three Blind Kings
A Q&A with geostrategist and Pentagon guru Edward Luttwak
byDavid Samuels
The Nomad
Q&A with Bernard-Henri Lévy
byDavid Samuels
The Authority Blob
A Tablet Roundtable about American elites with Angelo Codevilla, Todd Gitlin, Michael Lind, Ilana Redstone, and Wesley Yang
byDavid Samuels
The Pink Diamond
A yeshiva-boy-turned-jeweler from Antwerp becomes Africa’s most notorious weapons dealer
byDavid Samuels
The New Americans
In a moment of anger, chaos, and disintegration, they gave us hope
byDavid Samuels
Year Zero
The age of the machines demands its own samizdat
byDavid Samuels