Mearsheimer: Rigor or Reaction?
What John J. Mearsheimer gets wrong about Ukraine, international affairs, and much else besides.
Matt Johnson
· 21 min read
Politics
A collection of 531 posts
Justice in Stockholm
Thirty-four years after the massacre of political prisoners in Iran, the conviction of Hamid Noury in Sweden has been a victory for accountability and for the truth.
Roya Hakakian
· 19 min read
Beijing in Retreat
A plunging birthrate, deepening socioeconomic divisions, and the chaos produced by China’s failed Zero-COVID policy prove that Xi Jinping and the Party do not have the measure of the nation.
Aaron Sarin
· 12 min read
Child Welfare and the Cash Panacea
Poverty is not the cause of abuse and neglect.
Naomi Schaefer Riley
· 6 min read
Fables of the Deconstruction
Rejection may sting. But it’s not the same as being ripped off.
George Case
· 7 min read
Democracy’s Trenches
The idea that the war in Ukraine is not our business is seductive but dangerously mistaken.
John Lloyd
· 11 min read
Rebalancing the Gender Narrative
Richard Reeves’s new book is a valuable contribution to a gender debate stuck on outdated axioms.
Ari David Blaff
· 7 min read
Politics and the English Language, 2023
The continued relevance of George Orwell’s landmark 1946 essay.
George Case
· 8 min read
On Conservative Socialism
Far from being a phantom in the imaginations of a handful of writers and scholars, conservative socialism is a real phenomenon.
Seamus Flaherty
· 16 min read
Prisoners of Ideology
A more reasoned politics is critical to the future of society.
Joel Kotkin
· 14 min read
The White Paper Revolution
China’s population has learned that its voice has real power.
Aaron Sarin
· 14 min read
America’s Forgotten Crisis
A terrific new account of America’s social and political turmoil during the 1910s and ’20s provides some much-needed perspective on the problems afflicting the country today.
Michael J. Totten
· 14 min read
All About Dave
The tragic rise of a former comic, liberal, and Angeleno.
Ross Anderson
· 33 min read
Conservatism in an Era Of Populist Revolt
Right-wing radicals are being punished by voters because they have discarded the foundational principles of conservative philosophy.
Bo Winegard
· 11 min read
How Do They Know This?
An informative and apolitical new book reminds us that statistics are not always what they seem.
Christopher J. Snowdon
· 6 min read