Fukuyama’s Victory
Liberal democracy has again proved itself capable of overcoming its internal challenges and contradictions.
Matt Johnson
· 22 min read
Politics
A collection of 531 posts
Islamist Terror; Journalistic Error
In a valuable new book, historian Richard Landes argues that Western reporting on the Second Palestinian Intifada helped to seed a misunderstanding of terrorism.
Jeffrey Herf
· 19 min read
Trouble in the Midlands
How social media influenced media discourse about civil unrest in Leicester and inflamed the violence.
Hardeep Singh
· 8 min read
Misremembering the Korean War
The profound difference in quality of life on opposing sides of the 38th parallel today offers a rebuke to those who portray the US-led intervention in Korea as immoral or futile.
Niranjan Shankar
· 15 min read
The Loneliness of the ‘Bridge Man’ Generation
China’s dissenters are isolated. But they are not as isolated as they once were.
Aaron Sarin
· 9 min read
The Politics To Come
How will the rise of the New Right change Europe?
John Lloyd
· 12 min read
Gay Not Queer
Gay identities are based on biological sex; gender identities erase biological sex and replace it with gender.
Peter Gajdics
· 11 min read
In From the Cold
Solzhenitsyn’s Ivan Denisovich at 60.
Robin Ashenden
· 15 min read
The Months the Earth Stood Still
Did humanity defeat a potentially devastating plague with relatively modest losses, or did the greater devastation come from the victory itself?
George Case
· 9 min read
Will It Be Different This Time?
It is starting to look like a question of when, not if, the Islamic Republic of Iran will fall.
Brian Stewart
· 9 min read
Putting the Cart before the Camel?
A plea for Arab democracy.
Brian Stewart
· 9 min read
The Bobos at 22
In 2000, David Brooks foretold an American utopia that never arrived.
Kevin Mims
· 16 min read
Cacophonocracy
This is what happens when the possibility of consensus among the governed deteriorates to unmanageable extremes.
George Case
· 9 min read
French Nobels
Dynamite, literature, and the rise of the engaged intellectual.
Robert Zaretsky
· 10 min read
The Problems with Longtermism
The further we look into the future, the less certain we can be about our predictions and plans.
Matt Johnson
· 13 min read