Essays
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Hacking Democracy
What Can We Know and When Can We Know It?

Is there any hope of learning the truth about Russia, the elections, and Trump from Congress?

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Net Assessment
Time to Re-Engage

Whipsawed by years of foreign policy activism and then by general retreat, the United States is at risk of losing an opportunity to cement hard-won gains in Central Asia/Afghanistan.

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Milo Murray & Middlebury
How Not to Defend Free Speech

And why some limits on speech are not only good but even necessary for a free society.

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Potemkin Friendships
The Putin and Erdogan Show

The Russo-Turkish relationship is shallower, and more brittle, than it seems.

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Broken Vessels
300 Years of Theodicy

How can God, who is all-powerful, refrain from stopping the suffering of the innocent? The question is perennial.

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Rethinking Higher-Ed
Multiculturalism and Its Discontents

The movement for curriculum diversity in higher education is both too extreme and arrayed against the wrong target. There is a better way.

defense
A Larger Fleet Is Not Enough

Expanding the navy is a good idea, but only in service of a strategy to ensure U.S. dominance at sea.

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European Bellwethers
Immigration Fatigue Defines Dutch Elections

No matter the outcome, tomorrow’s parliamentary elections in the Netherlands will widen the divisions between European elites and publics.

Mean World
The Television Presidency: An Epilogue

Since I wrote “The Television Presidency,” I have been noticing more examples of several points made in the essay. This is normal—it’s just the well-known cognitive phenomenon of the evoked set at work. Nearly everyone experiences this from time to time. Learn a new word or become familiar with a new pop-culture datum, for example, […]

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Higher Education Watch
Mind the Professors

How the lack of ideological diversity on college campuses slows progress and threatens the ideals of liberal education.

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