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Silver Screen Reflections
The Magnificent Ambersons and the Age of Disruption

More than 75 years after its release, Orson Welles’s classic holds up as a visionary social prophecy.

Thierry Ehrmann, Abode of Chaos via Flickr
China's Long Game
The Sources of CCP Conduct

The Chinese Communist Party is hard-wired for hostile expansion—and it poses a threat to the free world unlike any since George Kennan’s time.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille-Corot, “Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld” (Wikimedia Commons)
Hadestown on Broadway
Orpheus and the Wall

Broadway’s latest smash is a vivid reimagining of the Orpheus myth for our own troubled times.

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TAI Conversations
The Last Man and the Future of History

TAI Chairman Francis Fukuyama looks back on his famous essay thirty years later—and looks ahead to the challenges facing the West tomorrow.

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Unrest in North Africa
Sudan’s Half-Revolution

Sudan’s youth have succeeded in forcing its longtime dictator to step down. But if history is any guide, this may not be quite the triumph they imagined.

“Man, Controller of the Universe” by Diego Rivera (Wikimedia Commons)
TAI Conversations
Comfort in Chaos

A Silicon Valley pioneer talks populism and technology.

TAI Conversations
A Century of European, German, and Jewish History

A 97-year-old literature scholar talks to TAI about Germany and the Jews, democracy and autocracy, and his never-ending love affair with fiction.

Liberalism vs. Feminism
#MeToo Eats Itself

The pre-emptive strike on Joe Biden has failed. Will the movement fail with it?

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Arab Spring Redux?
Takin’ it to the Streets in Algeria and Morocco

The regimes in Algiers and Rabat survived the original Arab Spring more or less unscathed—but the latest tumult suggests that the old methods of governing may no longer be enough.

Julius Gari Melchers, “Mother and Child” via Art Institute of Chicago
2020 Vision
The Child Care Primary

How a crowded, female-heavy 2020 field could restart a vital national debate.

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