The Fragility of the Liberal World Order For Kagan, the architects of the post-war order sought to wed America’s new-found superpower to the construction of a world order that reflected the domestic values of America itself: a liberal international order. Doug Stokes 23 Sep 2018 · 9 min read
Nationalism and Liberal Empire The nationalist’s nemesis is not the proponent of liberalism or progressivism, but the imperialist. Leon Hadar 16 Sep 2018 · 11 min read
A Better Theory of the Human Soul Beginning in the mid-2000s, the momentum toward an increasingly open and liberal world order began to falter, then went into reverse. Francis Fukuyama 14 Sep 2018 · 11 min read
Barefoot Over the Serengeti: A Visit with David Read Having lived and worked in rural East Africa for 16 years, I find that Read’s stories ring true, whereas Hemingway’s ring hollow. Geoffrey Clarfield 14 Sep 2018 · 12 min read
Cultural Appropriation and the Children of ‘Shōgun’ The panic over cultural appropriation seeks to stigmatise many wonderful works of popular fiction. Kevin Mims 30 Jul 2018 · 11 min read
Buy Banned Books In our hyper-mediated, panoptical culture, where neurotic self-reference is now almost completely inescapable, the continuing contribution of imaginative fiction and investigative journalism has never been more necessary. Bonny Brooks 30 Jan 2018 · 9 min read
Books to Read in 2018 Enlightenment Now, Steven Pinker “Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases…” Read more at Amazon. The Coddling of the American Mind, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt “The generation now coming of age has been taught three Quillette 1 Jan 2018 · 4 min read
