A collection of 620 posts
The case for removing the worst of the Arab prison states looks more justifiable than ever, even as the blunders involved in its execution look even more unpardonable.
Lineker has embarrassed the BBC but the vexing problem of illegal immigration will still have to be addressed.
Mary Harrington’s proposed solution to the excesses of modern feminism is an overcorrection.
The 1619 Project is, strangely, a history project that encourages forgetting as much as it remembers.
Too many Western politicians continue to delude themselves about the character of Beijing’s regime.
If the Davos crowd has demonstrated anything, it is the futility of their posturing.
Ukraine has been instrumental in restoring a focus on what matters to the people and elected leaders of the West.
The obsessive policing of language in the name of progress relies on magical thinking.
Richard Wolin’s reappraisal of Martin Heidegger offers both original contributions and a synthesis of critical scholarship. The result is a timely work of enduring importance.
A fine new book argues that the contemporary Left could learn a lot from the life and work of the late polemicist Christopher Hitchens.
The SNP has identified England and the English political class—especially the governing Conservative Party—as hostile forces.
It is not just Western officials who worry that Zelensky’s determination to defend Bakhmut at all costs will cripple his army’s effectiveness.
What John J. Mearsheimer gets wrong about Ukraine, international affairs, and much else besides.
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.
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.