Chaos at the End of History
Even in rights-based and law-bound democratic societies, people tend to find new things to struggle over.
Matt Johnson
· 28 min read
Politics
A collection of 523 posts
The Limits of Good Intentions
The payday-loan debate revisited.
Aaron Hanna
· 22 min read
Stop Dunking on Trump Supporters
No one is beyond reach—unless everyone around them refuses to reach out.
Julian Adorney
· 9 min read
Close Down UNRWA
Western nations must not continue to contribute to a UN agency that is effectively controlled by a terrorist organization.
Richard Goldberg
· 12 min read
Thinking the Unthinkable
Appeasement and deterrence in a nuclear age.
Steve Salerno
· 14 min read
A Sanctuary No More
The strange afterlife of the Hong Kong democracy movement.
Aaron Sarin
· 11 min read
South African Lawfare at The Hague
Motions before any court—criminal or civil, national or international—contain references to hard evidence and a careful reading of legal precedent. The South African ICJ application has neither.
Norman J.W. Goda
· 13 min read
The Language of Soviet Propaganda
Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred.
Izabella Tabarovsky
· 14 min read
A Historian for Our Moment
Jeffrey Herf has made a scholarly commitment to document the words of Islamic Jew-hatred from their origins in Egypt and wartime Berlin. That has made him a lonely voice in the American professoriate.
Sol Stern
· 14 min read
China’s Weapons of Mass Destruction
The Communist Party is leaving behind mere nuclear deterrence, and accelerating towards a “first-strike” capability.
Aaron Sarin
· 8 min read
Lights Out in America
The cowardice at America’s most important liberal publications is damaging democracy.
John Lloyd
· 12 min read
The Vilnius Fiasco
There is a better way to protect Ukrainian sovereignty and security—and long-term Western interests—than NATO membership.
Adam Garfinkle
· 24 min read
How Effective Altruism Lost Its Way
It is time for the EA movement to rediscover humanism.
Matt Johnson
· 29 min read
A History of Feminist Antisemitism
The story of how activists and academics exchanged the struggle for universal female improvement for a politics of division and hatred.
Kara Jesella
· 21 min read
Misunderstanding the Fertility Crisis
The DINKs video isn’t shaping culture—it’s a cultural response to the rising opportunity cost of having children in free and prosperous societies.
Alex Nowrasteh
· 10 min read