Retroview
The Voegelin Enigma

Eric Voegelin smashed every category, scrambled every dichotomy, and spurned every orthodoxy he encountered to discover what ailed modern Western society.

Homo Americanus
Duane’s World

How the son of Syrian immigrants accidentally became one of Toledo’s rock-and-roll impresarios.

Review
Nudge, or Shove?

Cass Sunstein’s ‘libertarian paternalism’ doesn’t just sound oxymoronic; it actually is. Liberalism deserves more forthright advocacy.

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Russia and the West
The Geopolitical Nihilist

Putin’s Russia may be able to wreck the geopolitical status quo, but it doesn’t have the power to replace it.

ACA Revisionism
Gruber Took the Measure of the ACA

Gruber denies being the “architect” of the ACA and has apologized for his worst comments, but when it comes to understanding the law, he was right.

Strategy Fail
Terminal Policy Incoherence on Ukraine?

The IMF found a $15b “hole” in its financing for Ukraine. Meanwhile, Germany seems to think the solution to Ukraine’s woes is to ask Russia, which it has placed under sanctions specifically for harming Ukraine, to help Kiev out.

Review
Iraq and Ruin

Two recent books by Iraqis on their country’s lost opportunities for democracy are themselves lost in wishful thinking.

Opacities
Hot Stuff, Cold Logic

Politically correct climate change orthodoxy has completely destroyed our ability to think rationally about the environment.

Opacities
Shining a Light on the Shadow Economy

The world’s ‘informal economy’ doesn’t just exist in poor countries, and it isn’t small-in size or in its effect.

Opacities
Mistral Mysteries

Unraveling the ensemble of motives behind France’s sale of amphibious assault craft to Russia is no simple matter.

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