Our policy of “strategic ambiguity”—in which neither China nor Taiwan can be sure whether the United States will intervene in a conflict—has outlived its usefulness.

On May 18, 2020, Anne Midgette, formerly the music critic at The Washington Post, joined The American Interest for a Zoom discussion about her book, challenges women face in classical music, and her career as a critic.

In 1920, a young Fitzgerald wrote the definitive novel about the Big Man on Campus, one that both romanticized and satirized university life—and set him on the path to greatness.

Robert Wiene’s Expressionist classic still retains its power 100 years later, with a timely parable of authority and social control.

The nuclear lobby is playing the national security card in trying to justify Federal handouts. It’s a con.

To partner with a predator is to surrender. Some European diplomats are playing a dangerous game.

On May 15, 2020 Ashley J. Tellis joined The American Interest to discuss his recent article for the National Bureau of Asian Research—”COVID-19 Knocks on American Hegemony.”

To understand why Beijing is lying so much about COVID-19, you have to understand the corrupt deal China’s Communist Party has struck with the country’s elites.

The coronavirus crisis provides all sorts of authoritarian temptations—even for democratic governments. Carefully considering human rights in assessing various policy responses can help us see the dangerous red lines.

Liberalism seems to have spawned a set of totalizing counter-ideologies due to its very own fragmentary nature. On May 14, 2020, Abram Shulsky of the Hudson Institute and Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Institution joined TAI to talk about modernity, religion, and the quest for meaning.