In 1986, while debating the Objectivist philosopher Harry Binswanger, a disciple of Ayn Rand, in a televised debate "Socialism vs. Capitalism,"[2] Judis laid out his version of socialism as being the inevitable socioeconomic arrangement of a post-capitalist society, where highly educated and industrialized societies would invariably transform into social democracies with mixed-market economies, personal property rights and independent small and medium enterprises, with state intervention to regulate problems of capitalism and alleviate suffering, a view shared by many modern sociologists, including Wolfgang Streeck,[3] as well as mid-20th century Progressives.
He has also written for GQ, Foreign Affairs, Mother Jones, The New York Times Magazine, and The Washington Post.
Later in 2015, in an essay The Emerging Republican Advantage [5] he revised this view as he noted that the long term Democratic Majority had given way to an "unstable equilibrium" between the parties.
[6] In 2004, he published "The Folly of Empire: What George W. Bush could learn from Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson," an attempt to put the American invasion of Iraq in historical context.
This book, which was widely reviewed, analyzed, among other things, the remarkable success of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump.