A battle that should never have been fought inspired Shakespeare and shaped the collective mentalities of the first modern nation-states.

How the triumphalist mutation of liberalism and the anti-liberal politics of identity have together brought us to the age of exhaustion.

A conversation with Norman Blake, direct from Sulfur Springs, Georgia, somewhatly about American acoustic guitar music.

Princeton philosopher Harry Frankfurt, famous for his best-selling 2005 book On Bullshit, takes on inequality.

Regulating the influence of television in U.S. politics is becoming less important than regulating the capacious influence of the internet—but the available methods are not remotely comparable.

The refugee crisis may not break the EU, but it will upend the postwar European political order.

“Middle class” is defined differently in India, Brazil, and South Africa, but all three countries share the same need: for a second wave of reforms to make their middles classes less state-oriented and more entrepreneurial.

On the advent of a new column here at The American Interest—an homage to Churchill and a reflection on his strengths, not the least of which was whimsy.

Portugal’s reigning coalition has a stronger finish than expected in Sunday’s elections, giving hope to other pro-austerity incumbents in Europe.

Novelist Julian Barnes gets it right in his new book of essays: the best way to see a painting is to look, and keep looking.