Nationalist Self-Hatred
The culture war alone cannot explain the civic rot on the populist Right.
Matt Johnson
· 18 min read
Politics
A collection of 523 posts
Unilateral Illiberalism
Tucker Carlson’s fawning interview with Vladimir Putin shows that he will never pose a threat to despotism.
Brian Stewart
· 8 min read
Immigrant Song
Canadians have had to formulate a new language to address new complications posed by immigration, and no one is quite sure how that language should sound.
George Case
· 9 min read
Cosmopolis or Bust?
In order to function, a cosmopolis must embrace both toleration and the rule of law.
Joel Kotkin
· 10 min read
Dan Schueftan on the Palestine-Israel Conflict
Pamela Paresky interviews the outspoken Israeli academic.
Pamela Paresky, Dan Schueftan
· 34 min read
A Confected Crisis
Valid concerns about anti-Muslim bigotry should not be used as an excuse to appease Islamist fanatics.
Oscar Clarke
· 9 min read
Broken Covenant
Will Democrats abandon Biden over Israel?
Brian Stewart
· 7 min read
Why Is the GOP Sticking with Trump?
A primer for foreign observers and the otherwise perplexed.
Adam Garfinkle
· 13 min read
Alexei Navalny 1976–2024
The life and death of a complex and courageous dissident.
John Lloyd
· 14 min read
Spies, Honeytraps, and Dissident Hunters
The Chinese Communist Party lives, breathes, and hallucinates espionage.
Aaron Sarin
· 11 min read
A Revolution on Race?
With ‘The End of Race Politics,’ Coleman Hughes enters the ranks of the most mature and sophisticated analysts of the all-American skin game.
Brian Stewart
· 8 min read
Equality Is Not Immunity
Societies may improve, but protesters’ arguments remain the same.
George Case
· 8 min read
A Moronic Inferno
America First and the looming spectre of an illiberal international.
Jeffrey Herf
· 15 min read
Beware the Little Lambs
Nietzsche warned us about the dangers of defining our values in opposition to something else.
Ben Turtel
· 7 min read
Narratives, Damned Lies, and Statistics
Government data about German antisemitism, widely cited in the English-language press, is wrong.
Andrew Hammel
· 12 min read