A collection of 232 posts
The post-Cold War democratic wave has receded and the free world now appears to be learning from authoritarian regimes instead of the other way around.
Israeli intelligence and the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023.
Instead of building the broadest possible coalition for his cause, Rufo is busy making enemies of potential allies.
Just six months after it was released by Netflix, Anna Kendrick’s feminist film about a real serial killer already looks like an ideological relic.
Éric Rohmer’s films demand patience and close attention, but they are immensely rewarding for those able to tolerate the absence of spectacle.
How the battle for the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act was fought, won, and nearly lost again.
My best friend had a psychotic break—our crisscrossing journeys through facts and fictions in thirteen chapters.
Clay Risen’s new book about the American “Red Scare” emphasises the injustices of anti-communism but minimises the true extent and danger of communist infiltration.
Israel’s experience in Gaza provides a sobering preview of what high-intensity urban warfare can entail, and how modern militaries must evolve to achieve decisive and ethical victories in any future conflict.
Forced to choose between believing the claims of Israeli women and maintaining solidarity with Palestinians, Western academic feminists chose the latter.
The Trump administration has liquidated the postwar international order.
Peter Beinart has responded to the 7 October massacre and subsequent Gaza war with a deeply duplicitous book.
George R.R. Martin, the Strauss-Howe theory of history, and the failure of the Baby Boomers.
Civil-rights law made the DEI world; civil-rights reform can unmake it.
What Karl Popper’s classic can teach us about the threats facing democracies today.