How the pragmatists interpret the crisis over Ukraine.

Russia’s history shows that palace coups almost always happen first. The people’s revolution comes later.

A year ago today, Boris Nemtsov was shot dead in front of the Kremlin. The following tribute was delivered on April 30, 2015 in Washington D.C. All the sentiments and ideas expressed are no less vital and relevant ten months later.

—The Editors

At stake is something far more precious than the future of the Republican Party.

Europe’s migration crisis is not over. It is spreading.

What I saw—and didn’t see—at the PEGIDA rally.

The brazen murder and its subsequent investigation demonstrate the nature and fragility of the Russian political regime.

For readers of the Chinese edition of Political Order and Political Decay, I thought you might like to know what parts were altered from the original text. The passages below are the English language originals, followed by the Chinese versions.  If you don’t read Chinese, there is an English-only version after the Chinese text.  Hence the […]

In the Middle East, if you pull on the partition string, there is really no telling where it ends.

Heidegger has powerful adherents in societies as different as Russia and Iran. If liberal democracies are to reckon with his followers, they must wrestle with his thought.