In the American context, how can Orthodoxy cope with the dynamics of the denominational system—essentially a free market of religious options?

The next President can’t help walking into four distinct strategy traps. The first one: The sheer scarcity of time.

Will China finish the economic transformation it has so successfully begun, or will it crash along the way?

Remembering novelist Nathanael West, whose California dreams came true. Until he crashed into the car of a man whose didn’t.

The U.S. has had some success in reducing cigarette use, alcohol consumption, and even fuel consumption by increasing taxes on the consumable. Let’s try it with guns.

In the age of drones, football is war between individual men.

The Petraeus affair has exposed the hollowness of U.S. intelligence classification decisions and made a mockery of the justice system.

Ankara is now squeezed between the fight against IS in Syria and the fight against the PKK at home.

The following text is based on a longer paper written for a conference on “The City and Religion” at the University of Darmstadt, Germany, January 2016.

We should all brace for a period in world history in which the clash between new technology and new ways of doing things, on the one hand, and entrenched interests, on the other, is rising, sometimes explosively.