Tautologies
A New Alliance to Nowhere

France and Germany’s “Alliance for Multilateralism” is pure posturing.

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Bipartisanship
The One Place Congress Works

A bill to outlaw anonymous shell companies has broad bipartisan support, and is a rare example of Congress working exactly as it’s meant to.

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Barista Bolsheviks
Contemporary Marxism: A Flag Without An Army

Jeremy Corbyn could very well be Britain’s next Prime Minister. In this context, it is worth examining what has in many ways become the ur-text for the new British Marxism: Clear Bright Future: A Radical Defence of the Human Being, by Paul Mason.

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Singapore the Improbable Part I
A Primer for Innocents at Home and Abroad

Singapore does not contain the same multitudes as does Walt Whitman’s America; it contains multitudes of its own, and they are remarkably capacious for such a small place whose modern history does not antedate America.

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Rooted Cosmopolitans
The Conservative Case for Globalism

Conservative intellectuals in the Trump era have taken to lambasting free trade and international institutions. Dalibor Rohac’s In Defense of Globalism could not, therefore, have come at a more opportune time.

(Henry Alken, Art Institute of Chicago)
Field Experiment
What I Learned from Listening to Americans Deliberate

Turns out most Americans want the same thing: to be heard and understood.

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Explainer
How the Framers Thought About Impeachment

The threat of impeachment being employed more often might just put some ballast back into our constitutional system.

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Empire of Liberty
The Personality of American Power

Challenges to America’s role abroad are more likely to lead to a strategic restoration than a realist revolution.

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What To Do About Iran
An Eye-For-An-Eye Response

A limited aerial attack on Iranian oil facilities would signal to the mullahs—and the world—that the United States will match Iranian attacks but not go beyond them.

(John Hultberg, Art Institute of Chicago)
Things Fall Apart
Brexit Beyond Britain

Brexit is a sign of deeper trends that are roiling the European continent. Improving the health of our democracies will be critical if Europe wants to express an alternative to the illiberalism and unruly populism that are taking hold.

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