Raymond Aron and the Art of Politics For Aron, politics is the art of living together, the art of the possible, and requires an “acute awareness” of the limitations of our power to influence reality. Alan S. Rome 8 Mar 2024 · 12 min read
What's Next for Poland? The abuses must be tackled, yet the new government must choose its remedies with care. Dalibor Roháč 19 Oct 2023 · 6 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
Science and Civil Liberties: The Lost ACLU Lecture of Carl Sagan Around 1987, Sagan gave an uncannily prescient lecture to the Illinois state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Steven Pinker and Harvey Silverglate 1 Jul 2022 · 14 min read
Smearing an Entire Protest Movement as Fascistic Will Come Back to Haunt My Fellow Leftists My career as a political essayist began 13 years ago. I had been asked by a left-wing Canadian website [https://rabble.ca/] to expand on my views about a then-ongoing constitutional crisis [https://rabble.ca/general/do-canadians-actually-prefer-minority-rule/]—and explain why public opinion had turned so sharply in favour of then-prime Stuart Parker 2 Feb 2022 · 7 min read
Across the Muslim World, Islamism is Going out of Vogue Islamism as an ideology may be great at mobilizing people, but this doesn’t necessarily translate towards effective governance, as has been proven again and again Imran Said 21 Jan 2022 · 14 min read
Gulags Are for Artists Like Me The role that journalists must play to uphold our democratic values is integral to democracy and social cohesion. Journalists hold governments and their agencies to account. Peter Mousaferiadis 18 Oct 2021 · 5 min read
Revisiting Kirkpatrick Constructive relationships with dictatorships will be key to protecting US interests without direct military involvements. Niranjan Shankar 24 Aug 2021 · 15 min read
America the Indispensable As the US was convulsed by the Floyd protests and violence in 2020, the Chinese foreign minister had the gall to denounce the “systemic and persistent existence” of repression of “people of color.” Joel Kotkin 18 Aug 2021 · 12 min read
Watching America’s Crack-Up America was born of the virgin Liberty, and like the son of God in which it still largely believes, will always rise from the dead. Benjamin Kerstein 9 Aug 2021 · 20 min read
The Ear Whisperers Machiavelli’s clear preference was for an advisor to be principled, believing in his advice and stating it clearly, but not importunate. John Lloyd 23 Jul 2021 · 11 min read
What Happened to Social Democracy? Social democracy was a product of the inequities of the industrial era and the consequent solidarity that flourished among working people. This often resulted in greater justice for racial minorities. Joel Kotkin 7 Apr 2021 · 13 min read
Leaders Are Worse Than Average In every political system, one hopes that the cream rises, that the rulers or governors will be the best and the brightest. Crispin Sartwell 27 Jun 2020 · 8 min read
‘10% Less Democracy’—A Review Books like 10% Less Democracy help us consider what republican solutions might look like today. Adam Wakeling 2 Apr 2020 · 10 min read
