America the Indispensable As the US was convulsed by the Floyd protests and violence in 2020, the Chinese foreign minister had the gall to denounce the “systemic and persistent existence” of repression of “people of color.” Joel Kotkin 18 Aug 2021 · 12 min read
20 Hungarian Lessons the West Is Still Missing Hungarian politics is usually much less ideological than you think. Erik D'Amato 13 Aug 2021 · 11 min read
Why Violence and Looting Have Exploded Across South Africa The poor and unemployed have demonstrated that their patience is limited and that they are a keg of dynamite waiting to go off. R W Johnson 16 Jul 2021 · 10 min read
The 'Lab Leak' Inquiry at the State Department Anyone who cares about ensuring that the lab-leak hypothesis is taken seriously should probably be thanking me, rather than vilifying me. Christopher Ashley Ford 14 Jun 2021 · 19 min read
Winners and Losers: The Global Economy After COVID Taking advantage of the post-pandemic era may start with securing national health but will depend over time on creating better conditions for adaptive grassroots businesses. Joel Kotkin and Hügo Krüger 4 Jun 2021 · 11 min read
How Strong Was Taiwan’s COVID Response? Taiwan’s COVID response will likely be remembered as one of the world’s best. Ben Weinstein 1 Jun 2021 · 12 min read
Stopped Cold: Remembering Russia's Catastrophic 1939 Campaign Against Finland Many Finnish soldiers felt pity for their opponents, prodded into battle by merciless commissars. Sean McMeekin 20 Apr 2021 · 12 min read
Europe, China, and the New Global Hierarchy Europe has benefited greatly from the fact that the dominant power for the past 75 years has been a liberal democracy—a flawed liberal democracy, no doubt, but a liberal democracy all the same. Aaron Sarin 19 Apr 2021 · 11 min read
Anti-Colonialism's Bad History Crimes, no matter how heinous, cannot be passed onto the progeny like some modern variant of the original sin, condemning them to unending purgatory. Marian L. Tupy 13 Apr 2021 · 6 min read
Fulton and the Case Against Normalcy A long-ago speech by a foreign dignitary may hold the key to recovering some lost wisdom about how America came into this role in the first place. Brian Stewart 23 Mar 2021 · 10 min read
Starvation and Ethnic Cleansing Stalk Ethiopia The Ethiopian government has attempted to maintain total control of the narrative by locking down the region and imposing a communications blackout. James Jeffrey 7 Mar 2021 · 8 min read
COVID-19 and the Ongoing Global Workplace Revolution The pandemic has done much to undermine the basis for urban supremacy. Joel Kotkin and Hügo Krüger 14 Feb 2021 · 14 min read
China and the Question of Taiwan In modern-day China, nationalism is at its strongest when dealing with the idea—almost an article of religious faith—that the independent island nation of Taiwan is in fact a Chinese state and must be unified with the mainland as soon as possible. Aaron Sarin 2 Feb 2021 · 12 min read