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China's Long Game
The Sources of CCP Conduct

The Chinese Communist Party is hard-wired for hostile expansion—and it poses a threat to the free world unlike any since George Kennan’s time.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille-Corot, “Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld” (Wikimedia Commons)
Hadestown on Broadway
Orpheus and the Wall

Broadway’s latest smash is a vivid reimagining of the Orpheus myth for our own troubled times.

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Overlapping Dissensus
The Holy Roman Union

The EU shares a number of characteristics with the Holy Roman Empire: overlapping sources of political authority with sometimes universal claims, and multiple and fuzzy political loyalties.

Technology and Liberal Democracy
The New Face of Tyranny

If there is one thing that human beings cannot resist, it is the temptation to busy themselves with the lives of others.

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Cultural Recovery
Zelensky, the Post-Soviet Man

Part of Zelensky’s appeal is that he offers a way for people who still feel close to Soviet and Russian pop culture to become politically European.

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TAI Conversations
The Last Man and the Future of History

TAI Chairman Francis Fukuyama looks back on his famous essay thirty years later—and looks ahead to the challenges facing the West tomorrow.

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Unrest in North Africa
Sudan’s Half-Revolution

Sudan’s youth have succeeded in forcing its longtime dictator to step down. But if history is any guide, this may not be quite the triumph they imagined.

“Man, Controller of the Universe” by Diego Rivera (Wikimedia Commons)
TAI Conversations
Comfort in Chaos

A Silicon Valley pioneer talks populism and technology.

Eugene Delacroix, “Tiger and Snake” (1862)
Red in Tooth and Claw
The Law of Nature and the Love of Self

How self-love and an ethic of struggle came to set the tone of life in the “progressive” West.

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Scotland as Bellwether
The Coming Secessionist Wave?

Scottish independence could light the way for various kindred movements across Europe—and beyond.

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