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The Alt-Ostrich Movement

Informed judgment is so rare in Washington there is a prize for it.

Vox Populi
Revisiting Hofstadter’s Populism

It’s held up better than you might think.

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"Community of Values"
The EU’s Looming Existential Choice

The European Union must brace itself for more confrontations over the enforcement of its liberal democratic standards—even if that forces a fundamental reckoning with its identity.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Art and Truth
The Faces of Cézanne

The portraits of the master, collected for the first time since his death, offer an antidote to preoccupations with our self-images.

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Killing in Kabul
Voices from Afghanistan

In the midst of tragedy, it’s worth recalling how journalists in Afghanistan risk their lives daily for decency, tolerance, and peace.

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China and the US
The National Security State of the Future

How economic competition with China could cause the United States to resemble its adversary.

Whore of Power
Curzio Malaparte, Mon Amour

Mussolini’s Michael Wolff is the writer to rediscover for the Trump era.

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Countries in Transition
The Fragility Spectrum

It’s time to set aside the one-size-fits-all approach to aiding countries in transition.

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On the Brink
Bracing for an Israel-Iran Confrontation in Syria

The United States has options for preventing—or at least limiting the scope of—a regional showdown in Syria.

NATO En Route to Brussels
The Fracturing of the Transatlantic Community

The national security consequences of increasingly polarized publics have not yet registered in debates about the collective defense of the West. 

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