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Future of Liberalism
The One Theory to Rule Them All

Patrick Deneen’s much-discussed book diagnoses liberalism with failure-by-success, but fails to find a convincing cure. Might the answer be another theory?

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Pipeline Politics
Turkey’s Energy Ambitions

At first glance, Turkey seems more dependent on Russian energy than ever. But Erdogan is playing a more complicated game.

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Print & Pixels
Drilling Down at Cannes

Let’s not roll out the red carpet as Saudi Arabia enters the movie business.

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Policing the Police
Can Deterrence Theory Explain the Stephon Clark Shooting?

The crisis in American policing isn’t because of a “few bad apples.” It’s due to decades of bad public policy.

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Putin's Inauguration
Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

Putin’s fourth term is shaping up to look a lot like his third—but with even more state repression and violence.

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Happy Days?
The Fifties Were Awful, But Not the Way You Think

The 1950s weren’t an age of conservative bourgeois culture. They were the destructor of that culture.

Cultural Exchange
Reading Gone with the Wind in China

How a Chinese scholar’s take on Scarlett O’Hara revealed something to me about America.

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Campaign Finance
Donald Trump, John Edwards, and the Mistress Loophole

Maybe Rudy Giuliani knows what he’s doing after all.

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Strategy and Policy
Let’s Dance the Machiavelli

Some unsolicited advice for America’s Prince, Donald Trump: Ignore the whining “globalists.” So what if your policies cost jobs and batter America’s standing? Go with the Florentine maestro of hardball politics: it’s better to be feared than loved.

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Middle East Watch
Hezbollah After Lebanon’s Elections

Hezbollah’s victory in Sunday’s Lebanese elections is virtually guaranteed—but there are signs that discontent is growing among its support base.

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