The Feckless Lebanese State American money and goodwill cannot fix a state when its own people refuse to make the sacrifices necessary to establish and defend effective, efficient, and responsible governance. Eric Bordenkircher 28 Jul 2024 · 8 min read
The Puzzle of Generational Politics Disenchantment is leading younger generations to embrace a politics marked by anger and alienation. Joel Kotkin 26 Jul 2024 · 11 min read
Life in China’s Crosshairs For the Taiwanese, independence is not just a matter of national pride, it is a requisite for their dignity and their right to choose their own civilisational path. Liam Hunt 23 Jul 2024 · 9 min read
An Interrupted Genocide The widespread reluctance to describe the atrocities of 7 October correctly is an impediment to peace. Jeffrey Herf 18 Jul 2024 · 11 min read
A Question of Legitimacy The Rassemblement National was thwarted by a coalition of convenience, but it remains the party with the largest grip on French voters. John Lloyd 12 Jul 2024 · 10 min read
Now Comes the Hard Part The UK’s new Labour government enjoys a huge mandate, but it must contend with imposing challenges at home and abroad. John Lloyd 9 Jul 2024 · 14 min read
Liberalism and the West’s ‘Crisis of Meaning’ Many liberals are strangely eager to concede that liberal societies are morally and spiritually bankrupt without religion to give life meaning. Matt Johnson 4 Jul 2024 · 25 min read
The Travesty of the Assange Plea Deal The complacency of American liberalism has been demonstrated yet again in its inability, or unwillingness, to guard the national interest. Brian Stewart 28 Jun 2024 · 7 min read
The War Against Truth It has long been a cliché that China is inscrutable to foreigners, but it is also becoming inscrutable to itself. Aaron Sarin 26 Jun 2024 · 9 min read
Sin and Social Science Glenn Loury’s startlingly frank confessional memoir offers a complex portrait of a brilliant scholar and a profoundly flawed man. John Lloyd 24 Jun 2024 · 14 min read
Stop Decriminalising Crime When a gap opens between what the law punishes and what society believes should be punished, people lose respect for the law and are more likely to violate it. Paul H. Robinson / Jeffrey Seaman 24 Jun 2024 · 11 min read
The Quincy Institute’s Middle East Fantasies The positions adopted by the think tank’s scholars during the war in Gaza are illustrative of its overall Middle East agenda: appease Iran and demonise Israel. Leon Hadar 20 Jun 2024 · 15 min read
In Defence of Manifest 2024 The Guardian’s reporting on a gathering of heterodox thinkers is truly lamentable journalism. Theo Jaffee 19 Jun 2024 · 8 min read
The Road to Neo-Feudalism Western societies stand on the brink of a great reversion towards a demographically and economically stagnant society reminiscent of the Dark Ages. Joel Kotkin 19 Jun 2024 · 9 min read
Something Is Wrong It is time for leftists to forego ideology and embrace a people-centred politics. Michael Walzer 14 Jun 2024 · 11 min read
