Those of us who think of Islam as one of the great faiths have more than tactical reasons for opposing the idea of war against it.

The United States must restore its leverage and credibility in the restive region caught between Russia, Turkey, and Iran.

“Partition it!” is the last refuge of foreign policy experts who really ought to know better.

Behind Trump’s trade, immigration, and national security rhetoric lurks a greater danger: the conversion of liberal nationalism into an illiberal cult.

Protests are on the rise in Belarus and its leader’s balancing act between Brussels and Moscow is becoming harder to pull off, but Alexander Lukashenko is digging in his heels.

Pure cosmopolitanism, despite its pretensions to openness, is actually in tension with America’s free speech tradition.

Russia is a violent place, and not all the assassinations that happen there are connected. But sometimes they look like they might be…

America’s schools need cash, but Pennsylvania’s proposed solution—substituting sales taxes for property taxes as a funding source—should get failing marks.

The Evangelical ritual of judgment, repentance, and forgiveness dominates the American moral imagination.

Not long ago TAI published (online and in the print magazine) an essay by Scott Alexander called “Notes on Cost Disease.” This essay originated as an extended blog post from the author and, like a lot of blog posts, it was written in a personal, loosely structured way. The author, whose real name I came […]