The Centre Must Rise No centrist who understands the current moment has ever truly laid out their case to the Democratic Party base in the context of a serious political campaign. It’s time to change that. Jack Despain Zhou 13 Nov 2024 · 8 min read
Revenge of the Silent Male Voter What I learned about Trump’s landslide victory from one night in New York City. Claire Lehmann 6 Nov 2024 · 4 min read
Searching for Presidential Rhetoric Students should study extensively the presidential rhetoric of earlier times, because it often demonstrates civility far better than the rhetoric of the present. Robert C. Thornett 8 Oct 2024 · 13 min read
Kremlin Cash The Tenet media scandal and the convergence of right-wing American punditry and Russian propaganda. Cathy Young 8 Sep 2024 · 9 min read
The Roots of Progressive Radicalism: Nellie Bowles vs. Musa al-Gharbi In two new books, a journalist and an academic offer competing explanations for the extremist ideological tendencies within left-wing cultural, academic, activist, and political institutions. Jonathan Kay 25 Jun 2024 · 16 min read
A Moronic Inferno America First and the looming spectre of an illiberal international. Jeffrey Herf 19 Feb 2024 · 15 min read
The Perils of Affective Polarization Our increasing desire to isolate ourselves from supporters of the opposite party can have dire consequences. Julian Adorney 10 Nov 2023 · 9 min read
Civility Isn’t Weakness—It’s How We Win A commitment to civility is first and foremost about not becoming what we oppose. Julian Adorney / Angel Eduardo 14 Jul 2023 · 4 min read
It Doesn’t Make It Alright The SCOTUS decision on affirmative action has ended a hypocritical and incoherent policy. Andrew Hammel 3 Jul 2023 · 15 min read
Chicago’s Criminal Irresponsibility Progressive thinking on urban violence is so unrealistic it is dystopian. Jukka Savolainen 29 Apr 2023 · 8 min read
Why Are Underage Central Americans in US Factories? Debt and migration spirals have turned asylum applications into a charade for exploitation. David Stoll 5 Apr 2023 · 8 min read
Dear Americans: Your Politics Don’t Have to Be This Toxic America’s narrowing two-party system is poisoning the greatest democracy in the world. Stephan Jensen 6 Jul 2022 · 18 min read
The Hard Left and Populist Right Agree on All the Wrong Things The ideas that unite the hard Left and the populist Right against the West itself are the same ones that make them both so excited about the culture wars. Stephan Jensen 13 May 2022 · 8 min read
The Tragedy of American Diplomacy: A Rebuttal Williams, W. A. (1962). The Tragedy of American Diplomacy. New York: Dell Pub. Co. When the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) pinned Putin’s recent invasion of Ukraine on NATO’s “imperialist expansionism,” many policymakers and journalists on both sides of the political spectrum lambasted the organization for its half-hearted Niranjan Shankar 6 May 2022 · 15 min read
Ukrainians Are Nobody’s Pawns Conservative anti-interventionists buy into an authoritarian narrative that ignores the clear choices made by the people of Ukraine. Robert Tracinski 19 Apr 2022 · 8 min read
