Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes
Those who ignore politically inconvenient information about affirmative action are more interested in defending a narrative than in actually solving a problem.
A collection of 542 posts
Those who ignore politically inconvenient information about affirmative action are more interested in defending a narrative than in actually solving a problem.
Even those of us who sounded alarms before the November election underestimated just how unhinged the second Trump presidency would turn out to be.
Israeli intelligence and the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023.
Liberal democracies need to restore a climate of entrepreneurial opportunity and competition.
Populist rhetoric and the hidden costs of economic illiteracy.
Alexander Vindman’s bracing new book argues that Ukraine has been made to suffer the consequences of Western naivety and restraint.
President Trump’s protectionist policies are erratic, ill-defined, and incoherent.
A French criminal court ruling forbidding Marine Le Pen from contesting the 2027 presidential election could throw the country into turmoil.
When dealing with the Chinese Communist Party, why does the West find it so difficult to learn the exhausting lessons of bitter experience?
The economic and geopolitical consequences of America First nationalism are going to be disastrous—not least for Americans themselves.
The new European commitment to defence and Russia’s unshakeable wish to control Ukraine have revived an awareness that war is something with which comfortable and relatively wealthy states may still have to live.
Accusations of Trump Derangement Syndrome and Trump himself are both products of the social-media age.
Clay Risen’s new book about the American “Red Scare” emphasises the injustices of anti-communism but minimises the true extent and danger of communist infiltration.
The pope is not a source of ethical wisdom.
Israel’s experience in Gaza provides a sobering preview of what high-intensity urban warfare can entail, and how modern militaries must evolve to achieve decisive and ethical victories in any future conflict.