China’s Weapons of Mass Destruction The Communist Party is leaving behind mere nuclear deterrence, and accelerating towards a “first-strike” capability. Aaron Sarin 7 Jan 2024 · 8 min read
Chernobyl Revisited Much of the tragedy resides in our collective response to the meltdown. Lea Booth 26 Apr 2023 · 8 min read
From Panic to Prudence Lessons from past financial crises. Robert F. Bruner 16 Mar 2023 · 10 min read
Beijing in Retreat A plunging birthrate, deepening socioeconomic divisions, and the chaos produced by China’s failed Zero-COVID policy prove that Xi Jinping and the Party do not have the measure of the nation. Aaron Sarin 28 Jan 2023 · 12 min read
Revolt Against the Modern World Putin is the offspring of a political culture based on insuperable adversity to democracy. Vladimir Tismaneanu 15 Oct 2022 · 6 min read
If Europe Wants Peace, It Must Prepare for More War Deterrence needs to be strong enough that it stands on its own feet with or without out American support. Stephan Jensen 15 Jul 2022 · 12 min read
Germany's Energy Catastrophe If Russia permanently cuts off natural gas exports to Germany, it will likely send the country, the world’s fourth-largest economy, into a severe recession. Lea Booth 14 Jul 2022 · 9 min read
The Man Who Stood Up to the CCP Thanks to Shinzo Abe, Xi Jinping now has a clear view of the future. Aaron Sarin 9 Jul 2022 · 5 min read
The Hard Left and Populist Right Agree on All the Wrong Things The ideas that unite the hard Left and the populist Right against the West itself are the same ones that make them both so excited about the culture wars. Stephan Jensen 13 May 2022 · 8 min read
Ukrainians Are Nobody’s Pawns Conservative anti-interventionists buy into an authoritarian narrative that ignores the clear choices made by the people of Ukraine. Robert Tracinski 19 Apr 2022 · 8 min read
Corrupter of the World The depth and breadth of corruption in countries, leaders, and peoples has gained more and more public attention in recent years, another torment to add to those already disturbing the peace of the socially aware. It is tormenting because—like the warming of the globe, the advance of authoritarianism, and John Lloyd 29 Mar 2022 · 14 min read
The Pathologies of Imperialism An earlier version of this article appeared in the German language newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on March 4th, 2022. February 24th, 2022, constituted a shock to the European psyche. The invasion of Ukraine, without any plausible casus belli, the massive use of military force against civilians, the attempted hunting down Harold James 11 Mar 2022 · 11 min read
Tibet’s Long Fight for Freedom Not unlike Hong Kong’s frontline protesters in 2019, with their street battles and Molotov cocktails, some Tibetans have realised they live in a time that calls for truly desperate measures. Aaron Sarin 30 Oct 2021 · 13 min read
From Playboy Sports Star to Islamist Politician: The Strange Turn of Imran Khan A further irony is that while Khan presses ahead with entrenching Islam in every nook and cranny of the polity and society, other Muslim-majority countries, including Saudi Arabia, are toning down the hard-line version of Islam that they have long promulgated. Rumy Hasan 23 Oct 2021 · 6 min read
Time for Less Long-Term Thinking About China Normalization of US-Chinese diplomatic relations in turn led to the biggest exercise in corporate continence in American business history. Erik D'Amato 5 Sep 2021 · 8 min read