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President Zelenskyy in a black shirt, looking concerned.

Ukraine’s Terrible Choice

After three punishing years of war, the Trump administration is preparing to reduce a ravaged country to the status of US protectorate.

John Lloyd

25 Feb 2025 · 16 min read

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The Christopher Wren Building at the College of William & Mary is an old building, at the end of an avenue of trees. .

Universities Are Worth Saving

Those seeking to address the crisis on America’s campuses should resist the tendency toward nihilism—the temptation to conclude that we need to just (metaphorically) burn it all down.

Jonathan Rauch

18 Feb 2025 · 14 min read

A crowded street in which protestors hold umbrellas.

The Evisceration of Hong Kong

From laissez-faire to lèse-majesté: an embarrassment in four fits.

Geoff Privisant

11 Feb 2025 · 13 min read

President Donald Trump holds up an executive order

Trump and the DEI Counter-Revolution

Civil-rights law made the DEI world; civil-rights reform can unmake it.

Thomas F. Powers

8 Feb 2025 · 44 min read

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A Violent History Obscured

South Korean Nobel laureate Han Kang’s literary experimentation thwarts rather than advances her professed concern for the suffering of everyone, everywhere, all the time.

Brad Strotten

26 Feb 2025 · 7 min read

An image of America personified as a Roma goddess, guided by Minerva, with shield and flag.

Donald Trump is often described as an imperialist and an expansionist and these terms are usually used interchangeably. Neither of these descriptions is meant to be flattering, but the larger problem is that they are imprecise.

Ronald W. Dworkin

24 Feb 2025 · 13 min read

Women factory workers work on conical objects. Black-and-white photograph.

Were the Nazis Left-Wing?

The parallels between Nazism and communism complicate the standard left–right divide.

Gerfried Ambrosch

24 Feb 2025 · 9 min read

Podcast #273: Australia’s Antisemitism Crisis

Quillette editor-in-chief Claire Lehmann speaks with Bangladeshi-born Australian psychiatrist and journalist Tanveer Ahmed about the rise of Jew-hatred in their country.