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China Down Under
Fifty Shades of Red

Clive Hamilton’s Silent Invasion is a vital wake-up call about the threat of Chinese influence operations—but its policy prescriptions are painted in very broad brushstrokes.

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Polycentricity
Indiana’s Gift to the International Order

Political economists in Bloomington had a recommendation for a better-designed global system, and we should take note.

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Social Media Myopia
The Lasting Power of Legacy Media

Amid debate about the political impact of Twitter and Facebook, authoritarian populists still shape political narratives the old-fashioned way.

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Future of Liberalism
The One Theory to Rule Them All

Patrick Deneen’s much-discussed book diagnoses liberalism with failure-by-success, but fails to find a convincing cure. Might the answer be another theory?

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Pipeline Politics
Turkey’s Energy Ambitions

At first glance, Turkey seems more dependent on Russian energy than ever. But Erdogan is playing a more complicated game.

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Print & Pixels
Drilling Down at Cannes

Let’s not roll out the red carpet as Saudi Arabia enters the movie business.

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Policing the Police
Can Deterrence Theory Explain the Stephon Clark Shooting?

The crisis in American policing isn’t because of a “few bad apples.” It’s due to decades of bad public policy.

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Putin's Inauguration
Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

Putin’s fourth term is shaping up to look a lot like his third—but with even more state repression and violence.

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Happy Days?
The Fifties Were Awful, But Not the Way You Think

The 1950s weren’t an age of conservative bourgeois culture. They were the destructor of that culture.

Cultural Exchange
Reading Gone with the Wind in China

How a Chinese scholar’s take on Scarlett O’Hara revealed something to me about America.

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