Graphic by Danielle Desjardins
Innovation and Disruption
Universal Basic Income: Does It Work?

Is UBI an idea whose time has come, or just a populist gimmick? With automation set to disrupt millions of jobs over the next decade, the stakes of answering that question have never been higher.

Politics Disrupted
Crashing the Parties

In Europe, the ancien régime of the moderate Right and Left is falling prey to the disruptors—mainly rightwing populists, but also non-threatening environmentalists like the surging German Greens who appeal to the center.

The Ivan Golunov Affair
The Summer of Russia’s Discontent?

How the sustained outcry against a reporter’s arrest led to a rare reversal from Russia’s authorities—and could widen the cracks between the Kremlin and the public.

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The View from Islamabad
Pakistan: Bad Moon Rising

A series of hydra-headed crises threatens to plunge Pakistan into chaos.

The New Public Square
How (Not) to Regulate the Internet

We should be more focused on protecting user rights than on policing content itself.

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The Great Awokening
The Rise of Progressive Occultism

Or why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez felt compelled to share her birth chart.

Andy Warhol, “Campbell’s Soup Cans” (1962)
An Editor’s Frustrations
In Search of an Advertising Tax

Trying to get a competent author to examine the idea of taxing advertising turned out to be an exercise in waiting for Godot.

Engraved by J.C. Buttre from a daguerretotype. Wikimedia Commons.
American Prophet
Frederick Douglass Is Not Dead!

And neither is the contest to define his legacy, as three recent books show.

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Deradicalization
In Support of David Frenchism

Sohrab Ahmari’s worldview is completely incompatible with basic tenets of liberalism.

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Green New Zeal
The European Slide Toward Irrelevance

The EU elections confirmed what has already been evident for some time: Europe’s geopolitical impotence.

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