Essays
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2016
The (Bad) Ideas Election

Hillary’s answer to American discontent is a familiar litany of left-liberalism, while conservative scholars outline a post-Trump intellectual revival.

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Humanity
Forms of Hatred

Or, how to understand the Age of Trump.

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Geopolitics
Russia and Turkey: Read the Fine Print

Moscow is getting closer to a gas pipeline deal with Ankara, but it’s not the geopolitical triumph some think.

State Capitalism
Putin’s Crony Gets His (Un)fair Share

The purchase of Bashneft by Rosneft represents one more example of how the “market economy” works in Russia—especially when money is being transferred from one state-owned pocket into another.

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Community Organizing
Clinton’s Alinsky Problem—and Ours

Saul Alinsky wasn’t a Marxist, and Hillary Clinton wasn’t his acolyte—though you wouldn’t know if from today’s political discourse.

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Foreign Policy
Grand Strategy in Three Words or Less

Volume One of the Pumphrett Papers.

Get Out The Vote
Grapes of Wrath

Georgia’s hotly contested elections, taking place today, are a critical test not just of the direction its politics might take, but also to the durability of its democratic institutions.

2016
Donald Trump Is Not Benjamin Disraeli

Disraeli sought to bring Britain into the future; Trump seeks to restore a golden past.

The Wild West
How the Golden State Became the Intellectual Capital of Trump’s GOP

California’s late 20th-century political history helps explain its outsized role in the pro-Trump intellectual right.

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Europe and Islam
The Facts and Figures on French Muslims

A think tank report sheds new light on how Islam is practiced (and not practiced) in France.

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