Essays
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Left to Rot
Labour’s Jewish Problem

Jeremy Corbyn’s rise tracks neatly with a growing tolerance for anti-Semitism on the British Left.

Let's Not Make a Deal
The Sound and Fury of Trump’s Paris Pull Out

What does it signify?

European Disunion
Are the Western Balkans Being Re-Balkanized?

The West must fight for this pivotal region—or risk ceding influence to the Kremlin and radical Islamism.

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The Doctor Is In
The Path to Real Health Care Reform

Four pillars for transforming health care delivery.

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Amateur Hour
The Back Channel Delusion

Back channels have been put to good use in the past, but they are not tools for the naive.

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T.M.I.
The Porcupine’s Dilemma

The origins and effects of the Age of Self-Exposure.

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sex and society
What Happens on Campus Doesn’t Stay There

Reining in Title IX won’t even begin to solve colleges’ sex-related problems.

Unintended Consequences
Trump’s Gifts to Merkel and Macron

The U.S. President did not go to Europe planning to punish Britain, reward Germany and promote France. But that is exactly what he did.

A German View
Assessing the Brussels Wreckage

Germany’s only way forward is to somehow try to protect Transatlantic relations from Donald Trump himself as best it can.

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In the Oval Office
Pumphrett in Trump’s Labyrinth

Volume eight of The Pumphrett Papers.

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