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TAI Conversations
Facing East, from the West: A Conversation with Finland’s President

TAI editor-in-chief Jeffrey Gedmin speaks with Finnish President Sauli Niinistö.

Office of the President of Estonia
TAI Conversations
Facing East, from the West: A Conversation with Estonia’s President

TAI editor-in-chief Jeffrey Gedmin speaks with Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid.

Words as Weapons
Is the Mainstream Left, Right, or Center?

American political discourse has long revolved around a non-stop labeling game that often does more to obscure political realities than to elucidate them. Is it possible to explode the game?

RKO Pictures
Vegetative Vampires
Howard Hawks’s The Thing and Our Echo Chamber Age

In the 1951 classic, an otherworldly being feeds on all-too-human fears—and shows how bonds can fragment in a climate of paranoia and distrust.

The Ivan Golunov Affair
The Summer of Russia’s Discontent?

How the sustained outcry against a reporter’s arrest led to a rare reversal from Russia’s authorities—and could widen the cracks between the Kremlin and the public.

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The View from Islamabad
Pakistan: Bad Moon Rising

A series of hydra-headed crises threatens to plunge Pakistan into chaos.

On the Stage
De-Aeschylation

In the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s new Oresteia, humanism ex machina doesn’t save the day.

United China Relief poster (Wikimedia Commons)
Print & Pixels
Huawei, Hollywood, and the Battle for 5G

Before Beijing tried to dominate our wireless networks, it succeeded in dominating our film industry. That’s a saga in urgent need of telling.

Seán Keating, “Men of the South” (Crawford Art Gallery)
An Irish Homecoming
Your Roots Shall Make Ye Free

In his new memoir, Michael Brendan Dougherty rages against the atomizing effects of modern liberalism—and finds comfort in the binding ties of family, nation, and Church.

Strategic Delusions
Why Germany Coddles Iran

Berlin’s split with Washington on Iran long predates Trump—and it speaks to a dangerous naivety in German strategic thinking.

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