Prisoners of Ideology
A more reasoned politics is critical to the future of society.
Joel Kotkin
· 14 min read
Politics
A collection of 552 posts
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
Fukuyama’s Victory
Liberal democracy has again proved itself capable of overcoming its internal challenges and contradictions.
Matt Johnson
· 22 min read
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