How Hong Kong’s Struggle Came to Britain Conflict is brewing between Hongkongers who have made the UK their home and a Communist Party that wants to make the UK its vassal. Aaron Sarin 13 Feb 2025 · 8 min read
The Evisceration of Hong Kong From laissez-faire to lèse-majesté: an embarrassment in four fits. Geoff Privisant 11 Feb 2025 · 13 min read
Sticking to Reality Humankind’s propensity to believe convenient fiction is as old and strong as our propensity for war. The United States needs to adopt a pragmatic deterrence strategy. Gary Geipel 11 Feb 2025 · 6 min read
American Exceptionalism Reconsidered Exceptionalism is a double-edged sword, which cuts those blind to America’s flaws and those blind to its virtues. Brian Stewart 10 Feb 2025 · 7 min read
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
Fentanyl in America: Geography of a Crisis There are no quick and easy solutions to America’s illegal fentanyl problem. Robert C. Thornett 7 Feb 2025 · 11 min read
The Open Society and Its New Enemies What Karl Popper’s classic can teach us about the threats facing democracies today. Matt Johnson 29 Jan 2025 · 27 min read
Hamas and the Red Cross What remains of the ICRC’s ostensible commitment to “neutrality, impartiality and independence” has been destroyed by the Gaza war. Gerald M. Steinberg 29 Jan 2025 · 9 min read
REDnote and the TikTok Refugees If they manage to stay on REDnote long enough, former TikTokers will surely begin to notice that all is not as it seems in modern China. Aaron Sarin 28 Jan 2025 · 6 min read
The Hard and Soft New Right In Central and Eastern Europe, the more extreme wing of the continent’s radical Right is gaining ground. John Lloyd 27 Jan 2025 · 12 min read
How the Media Broke the Immigration Debate What good is a free press if it lacks the courage to ask difficult questions about our most important problems? Tomás Sidenfaden 21 Jan 2025 · 11 min read
Jihadist at a Crossroads Syria’s new leader will have to balance his Islamist beliefs with the more pressing tasks of state-building and economic development. Sean Welsh 16 Jan 2025 · 11 min read
Syrian Torture, Then and Now The atrocities committed by the Assad regime were no secret—but they were met with Western inaction. Susie Linfield 14 Jan 2025 · 7 min read
Memorial Daze Notions of injury or exclusion are often based on shifting cultural sensitivities and political pressures, rather than on any permanent, universal measure of good and evil. George Case 14 Jan 2025 · 7 min read
China’s Autoimmune Disorder China is now turning its rage inward. Aaron Sarin 5 Jan 2025 · 6 min read
