World Affairs - Quillette (Page 8)

China and the Difficulties of Dissent

As the world’s most powerful fascist regime, one would expect China to encounter great difficulties spreading its influence on liberal Australian university campuses, the student bodies of which are hypersensitive to right-wing teaching or teachers.

Simon Leitch

5 Aug 2019 · 14 min read

“War Is the Least Conservative Undertaking”—An Interview with Dr William Ruger

It is time for conservatism to fully embrace a prudential, restrained approach to foreign policy.

Sumantra Maitra

31 Jul 2019 · 7 min read

When the Lion Wakes: The Global Threat of the Chinese Communist Party

Aaron Sarin

22 Jul 2019 · 12 min read

Eastern Europe’s Emigration Crisis

According to the UN, of all the countries that are expected to shrink the most in the coming decades, the top 10 are all in the eastern half of the continent, and seven of those are in the European Union.

Josh Adams

29 Jun 2019 · 6 min read

The Impressive Record of Theresa May

Skeptics say these are fiddled figures that don’t account for the “explosion” of zero hours contracts.

Tal Tyagi

26 Jun 2019 · 10 min read

Indonesia's Unlikely Democracy Remains Resilient

Despite the brief unrest that followed the announcement of Jokowi’s victory, the election of April 17 stands as a testament to the continuing resilience of Indonesia’s young democracy.

Imran Said

6 Jun 2019 · 12 min read

François Furet: A Man For Our Season

Furet feared that there now appeared to be a simultaneous deadening of politics as the apparently unchallengeable hegemony of quasi-liberal democracy grew, and a dangerous backlash against the system.

Joshua David

2 Jun 2019 · 10 min read

How Progressivism Enabled the Rise of the Populist Right

Progressives will look askance at these policies, decrying them as racist and fleeing to Green or other political alternatives.

Eric Kaufmann

27 May 2019 · 9 min read

The Real Ballot Question in South Africa: How to Keep the Country from Falling Apart

Corruption, escalating unemployment, social unrest, and failing public infrastructure plague the nation.

R W Johnson

7 May 2019 · 7 min read

The Iraq War Was Not About Oil

American oil companies didn’t want to topple Saddam Hussein; they wanted to trade with him.

Tal Tyagi

6 May 2019 · 11 min read

Denmark's Blaspheming Mother

Immigration, Islamism and integration are salient issues even in the happiest place on earth.

Andy Ngo

22 Apr 2019 · 9 min read

The Scars of Rwanda, 25 Years On

Dallaire, abandoned in hell, the commander unable to command, let alone protect, developed severe post-traumatic stress disorder.

Jessica Robeson

3 Apr 2019 · 12 min read

The Exhaustion of Hedgehog Morality

It is not a resurgence of “authoritarianism” that explains the current backlash against liberalism, as Kagan and others would have us believe.

Johan Wennström

27 Mar 2019 · 8 min read

Venezuela and the Half-Truths of Noam Chomsky

Chomsky has spent his career attacking the crimes and incompetence of the US but excuses the same in its enemies.

Clifton Ross

25 Mar 2019 · 13 min read

The Fall of a Third-Rate Stalin

Dissidents who weren’t assassinated outright might end up in Mile 2 Prison. Only a handful of Mile 2 inmates actually faced lethal injection—the prison’s principal methods of execution were disease and malnutrition.

Zachary Snowdon Smith

24 Mar 2019 · 14 min read