Print & Pixels
The Washington-Hollywood Pact

The nation’s capital and its dream factory have long worked together to maximize the export of American films to the rest of the world, on the theory that doing so is both good business and good diplomacy. Is this still the case?

(James Gillray, Art Institute of Chicago)
representation
Brexit’s Democracy Lesson

Asking “the people” to do the job of governing, even for an incompetent representative government, is asking for even more trouble.

The Old Lady at 70
Start Planning NATO’s 100th Birthday

Alliances die when they win. So NATO should have gone the way of all flesh when the Soviet Union committed suicide in 1991. Yet it has not only endured, but also expanded. And based on enduring interest, the Alliance will survive Donald Trump, too.

(Marcantonio Raimondi, Art Institute Of Chicago)
Culture & Ideology
Toward a More Discriminating Theory of Discrimination

These days, it’s all too easy to conclude that a decision one happens to disagree with must be motivated by invidious prejudice. And it’s easier still when the list of traits someone could “discriminate” against keeps growing and now includes things like “culture” and “ideology.”

Taxation & Representation
DC Statehood? There’s a Better Way

How to give District residents all the rights due to them without the trouble of adding a new state to the union.

The Real Authoritarian Challenge
Corruption Is the New Communism

It’s not an ideology, but it’s a threat all the same.

The Euro at 20
Europe’s Self-Inflicted Disaster

The euro’s prospects for the future are dismal. But right now, abandoning the currency is a political dead-end.

Photo by Danielle Desjardins
A Conversation with Bernard-Henri Lévy
Europe, and the Values That Made America

TAI caught up with the famous French philosopher to talk about his latest book—and how to save Western civilization.

Opening Bids
Europe’s Campaign Season Is Just Beginning

The spat between France and Italy has become the template for the European electoral battle to come—a fight for the soul of the European Union.

Bert Williams, via Wikimedia Commons.
Print & Pixels
More Ballast, Please

Rounding out the politically correct narrative about blackface.

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