Zhengzhou Train Station, January 14, 2019 (Photo by Matthew Chitwood)
Dispatch from China
Homage to a Slow Train

After this Chinese New Year, the largest human migration on earth will never be the same again—and it’s not because of coronavirus.

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Israel-Palestine
We Need a Corrective to Old Catechisms on Peace. Trump’s Plan Isn’t It

The best ideas in Trump’s peace plan will be delegitimized by its overall failure—because on each count, the Administration has stretched a laudable principle beyond recognition.

(Composite by Danielle Desjardins)
TAI Conversations
Arch Puddington: “There’s No Such Thing as Illiberal Democracy”

As Freedom House unveils its annual report on global freedom, democracy scholar Arch Puddington discusses growing threats to minority rights, the disappointment of India, and his own career advancing democracy and human rights.

Culture in America
The Meaning of the Super Bowl

In the age of drones, football is war between individual men.

Images © Criterion Collection; Composite by Danielle Desjardins
European Disunion
Three Colors and the Fracturing of Europe

Released at a time of enormous hope for the European project, Krzysztof Kieślowski’s classic film trilogy has much to tell us now that so many of those hopes are fading.

John Hain (Pixabay)
A Letter from the Editor
Beyond Parties of One

To renew democracy across the West, we need to restore voter ties to traditional parties. (A letter from the upcoming March/April 2020 print issue.)

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Green Economics
The Private Sector Acts on Climate Change

Between Greta Thunberg’s prophecies of doom and Donald Trump’s denial and inaction, the private sector is pioneering a sensible middle way on climate change.

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How to Build a Nation
A Certain Idea of Charles de Gaulle

Julian Jackson’s splendid biography captures the stubborn power of the statesman who willed postwar France into being, constructing a national identity that was both sovereigntist and cosmopolitan.

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The Closing of the American Mind
Re-Encountering Allan Bloom

A cultural historian and music critic reflects on the campus unrest he chronicled as an undergraduate—and why, so many years later, Allan Bloom’s prophecies about higher education have come to fulfillment.

(Kremlin.ru)
Moscow Down Under
Russia’s Australian Well-Wishers

What does Russia want in Australia—and why are there so many fellow travelers supporting its interests there?

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