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The UK Election, Blow-By-Blow

Midnight ESTWhat a night it has been. With around a hundred seats left to declare, Boris Johnson and the Conservative party are on target for a majority of about 70 seats–the party’s best result since Margaret Thatcher in 1987. Their vote share will be around 45 per cent—its best since the 1970s.Labour in contrast looks […]

Ilhan Omar and the Jews

Knowingly or not, Ilhan Omar is acting like a designated provocateur, playing her role in a shrewd effort to seize control of the Democratic Party. But her rhetoric has deep roots in American politics.

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The Tourists’ Puzzlement

How did a statue of Andrew Jackson end up at the center of Lafayette Park? There is an answer, but a story goes with it.

2019 Predictions

Another year, another round of prognostication. TAI editors speculate about what 2019 has in store.

The Left’s Case Against Birthright Citizenship

The view that “none of us deserve citizenship” is incoherent because it invokes the horrors of statelessness to make what is essentially an anti-statist argument.

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Protestantism’s Lasting Sting

In many ways, our ruling class remains more WASPy than either its critics or advocates may like to think.

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When Milo Wins, So Do SJWs

Conservative provocateurs are not “owning the libs.” They’re enabling them.

Democracy, Development & the Rule of Law
Interrogating Identity

A conversation with Richard Aldous on the origins of modern identity politics.

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Shocked and Surprised

The revelations of a “resistance within” the Trump Administration are surprising in their details. But what is happening now was always inherent in the idea of a Trump presidency.

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Democracy, Development & the Rule of Law
Identity and the End of History

History is directional and progressive, and the modernization process points to liberal democracy as its fullest embodiment. But getting there is harder than it seemed back in 1992, and the possibility of institutional decay is ever-present.

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