The EU shares a number of characteristics with the Holy Roman Empire: overlapping sources of political authority with sometimes universal claims, and multiple and fuzzy political loyalties.

Part of Zelensky’s appeal is that he offers a way for people who still feel close to Soviet and Russian pop culture to become politically European.

Scottish independence could light the way for various kindred movements across Europe—and beyond.

Matti Friedman’s Spies of No Country is a compelling tale of Israeli espionage. But more than that, it is a meditation on Israel’s national origin story.

Conservative jeremiads that condemn liberal democracy as irredeemably flawed damage the cause of freedom at a moment of mounting vulnerability.

Capitalism is still the best economic system humanity has produced. But it is long overdue for reform.

Can you have merit-based admissions without a culture of meritocracy? It depends how, exactly, that culture came about.

The criminal justice system imprisons far too many people for petty misdemeanors. A points-based system, not unlike the one built into our traffic code, could change that.

A growing array of reformers are coming to see the logic of “master reform,” the one most likely to break the logjam on all the others: Ranked Choice Voting.

China’s “responsive authoritarianism” model is less responsive—and resilient—than its proponents argue.