Our top ten essays from a year of political upheaval.

The best movies of the year shared a willingness to bridge sensibilities, scramble genres, and confound expectations.

The President’s new National Security Strategy is encouragingly “low-energy,” but is it credible?

Our institutions of higher learning have fostered a new paternalism.

Iran is using its proven strategy of co-opting local militias to encroach on Iraq’s Christian heartland. The good news: the incursion is still reversible.

The Western elite’s populism-as-fascism meme is neither accurate nor helpful.

Five reasons the Palestinian public has been relatively quiet so far in reaction to Trump’s Jerusalem announcement.

Is Kosovo the next big recruiting ground in Europe for ISIS?

Why social trust matters, and seven reasons for its decline.

To say that digital technology has disrupted society is already a cliché. Yet we are only just starting to grasp the radical break we are facing with respect to our legal institutions and norms.