Kleptocrats Take Note
The Precedent-Setting Trial in Paris

Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue of Equitorial Guinea is not only facing the prospect of forfeiting his ill-gotten wealth. He may also be looking at a prison term.

Print & Pixels
Academic Freedom in an Era of Globalization

The campus free speech wars aren’t the only threat to American higher education.

panem et circenses
Is a Competent Trumpism Possible?

Could a more mainstream politician maintain or perhaps even improve on Trump’s coalition, while at the same time more effectively realizing his policy agenda?

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The Quiet War
Make America Vigilant Again

An open society needs to be keenly aware of the cynical perfidy of its adversaries.

The German Elections—Take One
The AfDermath

Populism is alive and well, it seems, in Germany. It’s not clear, however, that policy was the decisive factor for many voters abandoning the two big-tent parties.

Unfounded Fears
The Great Global Governance Scare

The fear of “global governance” runs rampant among conservatives and libertarians, as if an unaccountable global autocracy was just around the corner. It’s not.

After a Chaotic Decade
The West Needs a Strategy

A decade of setbacks for the West abroad and at home point to the urgent need for coordinated and coherent strategic thinking.

Review
The Lost Leviathan

Perry Anderson’s critique of liberal hegemony was written before Donald Trump’s unexpected victory in November of last year. And in a way, Trump’s election might serve as a vindication of Anderson’s attack.

Civil War Monuments
Take Them All Away

We need to mitigate the looming repolarization of race and racial politics in America after more than half a century of incomplete but hardly trivial progress. This may require some deliberate loss of memory.

Identity Politics Unleashed
Charlottesville and Our Crisis of Political Legitimacy

The Republic is in bad shape—not because of Charlottesville, but because of how our politics are playing out in its aftermath.

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