Opportunities for Liberation
Israel’s multi-front war has transformed the Middle East.
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Israel’s multi-front war has transformed the Middle East.
American conservatives show no interest in understanding their country’s greatest geopolitical foe. The consequences of this incuriosity could be disastrous.
Putin’s fixation on Ukraine is eroding his empire.
An interview with Francis Fukuyama.
A tribute to a brilliant writer and a journalist of great integrity and candour.
A critical part of the One Big Beautiful Bill’s budget equation may evaporate with a judicial pen stroke in the very near future.
Sam Tanenhaus’s new biography of William F. Buckley provides a rich and nuanced portrait of one of the most consequential public intellectuals in modern American conservative politics.
Operations Rising Lion and Midnight Hammer have been successful military operations, but a great deal of uncertainty remains.
The post-11 September wars set in motion political forces that constrained and undermined American power at the moment it was needed most.
In the United States, demographic decline will test conservative support for welfare reform.
Israel’s humiliation of Iran may have changed the region.
The Israeli attack on Iran is in line with its longstanding policy of never allowing its neighbouring enemies to acquire nuclear weapons. But it is also the latest episode in the wider war against Israel launched in late 2023 by Iran’s proxies.
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.
The state should never be in the business of enforcing any particular ideology, but nor should it be in the business of suppressing it.
Liberal democracy, for all its flaws and contradictions, was the fruit of slow-growing wisdom.