Essays
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The Man from Dresden
Reading Putin in Hamburg

Putin is no businessman, ready to make a good deal. He is a manipulator, through and through.

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The Eternal Return
Why Talking to Putin Won’t Work

It’s a pity that every incoming U.S. administration seems to need to relearn this lesson.

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Innovation
Free the Spectrum!

Anti-competitive spectrum regulation squelches innovation and impedes progress. Government should get out of the way.

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The Middle East
The Qatar Crisis in Context

The historical record shows that U.S. foreign policy would be well served by resisting the temptation to take sides.

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Technology
Flattened: Disintermediation Goes Global

The unpredictability of the current global system goes all the way up, and all the way down.

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The Insecurity of the West
Losing the Nation-State

The liberal international order cannot survive the unraveling of strong national communities that are the baseline of democratic government.

Obamacare Repeal
The Smallness of the Health Debate and the Failure of Elite Imagination

The parties are locked into a zero-sum fight over resources that leaves the underlying deformity of our system unaddressed.

1929-2017
Peter Berger, RIP

Remembering the man: scholar, husband, parent, colleague, and friend.

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Siberia
Russia, the Last Colonial Empire

Russia should be counted among the European colonial empires—and as the only one left standing. That’s the key to comprehending its future.

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vnesheconombank
Who Are These Russian Bankers?

As Jared Kushner lawyers up, keep in mind that one of his meetings reportedly under investigation was effectively with Putin’s own banker.

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