A collection of 718 posts
The first lady’s surreal act of geopolitical theatre did little to explain how the ongoing US–Israeli military campaign against Iran’s brutal theocrats will make the world safer.
The Islamic Republic’s assault on the Gulf will forge the new Middle East.
In geopolitics, moral culture shapes whether influence is experienced as leadership or domination, cooperation or coercion.
Iran has never been weaker and America has never been more poorly led.
The real dilemma is not between war and negotiation. It is between episodic action and sustained architecture.
The surge in support for Australia’s populist right-wing party One Nation suggests that immigration restrictionism has become increasingly popular with voters: a political trajectory that echoes that of many other Western nations.
Liberals must act aggressively to uphold the values of free society.
A selection of Quillette essays and interviews examining the cultural, scientific, and legal dimensions of gender identity.
In Sudan, a civil war involving Arab supremacists backed by the UAE has left as many as 400,000 dead and displaced twelve million. The silence on campus is deafening.
Populist rhetoric is exceptionally effective for pursuing and gaining power, but it provides no program for the complexities of actual governance.
Why prosperity breeds guilt, how status incentives reward critique, and what happens when function is replaced by moral performance.
Americans who may have ferocious disagreements about the size of government, foreign policy, and a wide range of other issues must find a way to unite around their shared commitment to the liberal idea.
The idea that we should redistribute wealth by fiat from prosperous to low-income and stagnating countries remains popular even though it is profoundly misguided.
The Takfiris are back in business.
Progressive discourse has become highly adept at identifying oppression, exclusion, and harm. But it is far less capable of understanding the basic conditions of political order.