Kyiv’s “patronal” politics and soft authoritarianism could extinguish the promise of the Maidan, just as they did the Orange Revolution before it.

Progressives may be tempted by a Harvard law professor’s solution to the affirmative action tangle. But it would make our politics even more toxic.

A terrible loss that shouldn’t be mourned.

Once again, as before the age of the European empires, political order has become weak in much of the world.

The fear of “global governance” runs rampant among conservatives and libertarians, as if an unaccountable global autocracy was just around the corner. It’s not.

A decade of setbacks for the West abroad and at home point to the urgent need for coordinated and coherent strategic thinking.

The truth about the legal morass created by the controversial Citizens United ruling, and why it matters.

Hong Kong’s young democracy activists are being thrown in jail. But the movement should hold out hope for change, both locally and in mainland China.

We need to mitigate the looming repolarization of race and racial politics in America after more than half a century of incomplete but hardly trivial progress. This may require some deliberate loss of memory.

Will Charlottesville have little effect on our country, or begin a cascade toward total civilizational change? The science of social behavior provides a clue.