A collection of 620 posts
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.
China’s dissenters are isolated. But they are not as isolated as they once were.
How will the rise of the New Right change Europe?
Gay identities are based on biological sex; gender identities erase biological sex and replace it with gender.
Solzhenitsyn’s Ivan Denisovich at 60.
Did humanity defeat a potentially devastating plague with relatively modest losses, or did the greater devastation come from the victory itself?
It is starting to look like a question of when, not if, the Islamic Republic of Iran will fall.
A plea for Arab democracy.
In 2000, David Brooks foretold an American utopia that never arrived.
This is what happens when the possibility of consensus among the governed deteriorates to unmanageable extremes.
Dynamite, literature, and the rise of the engaged intellectual.
The further we look into the future, the less certain we can be about our predictions and plans.
In the age of the Internet, can the Sitong Bridge Warrior’s protest make a difference?
Biden, Putin, and the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
Adam Curtis’s new BBC series provides a unique insight into Russia’s late-twentieth-century collapse.