A collection of 545 posts
Humankind’s propensity to believe convenient fiction is as old and strong as our propensity for war. The United States needs to adopt a pragmatic deterrence strategy.
Exceptionalism is a double-edged sword, which cuts those blind to America’s flaws and those blind to its virtues.
Civil-rights law made the DEI world; civil-rights reform can unmake it.
There are no quick and easy solutions to America’s illegal fentanyl problem.
What Karl Popper’s classic can teach us about the threats facing democracies today.
What remains of the ICRC’s ostensible commitment to “neutrality, impartiality and independence” has been destroyed by the Gaza war.
If they manage to stay on REDnote long enough, former TikTokers will surely begin to notice that all is not as it seems in modern China.
In Central and Eastern Europe, the more extreme wing of the continent’s radical Right is gaining ground.
What good is a free press if it lacks the courage to ask difficult questions about our most important problems?
Syria’s new leader will have to balance his Islamist beliefs with the more pressing tasks of state-building and economic development.
The atrocities committed by the Assad regime were no secret—but they were met with Western inaction.
Notions of injury or exclusion are often based on shifting cultural sensitivities and political pressures, rather than on any permanent, universal measure of good and evil.
China is now turning its rage inward.
Iran and Russia have suffered serious setbacks over the past year, but grave dangers remain.
It is time to take environmentalism away from the environmentalists.