COST Discipline
The Solution to Capitalist Inequality: Radical Markets

The problems the radical Left seeks to address are real. But their solutions are not nearly radical enough.

Natalia Goncharova, Cyclist (via Wikimedia Commons)
Coping with Doping
Getting Off the Sidelines

How the United States can confront Russian doping and start to fix international sport governance.

The Parlmt. dissolved, or, the Devil turn’d fortune teller, 1774 (via Library of Congress)
A Conversation with Tom Tugendhat
“Just Because You Don’t Believe in the Devil Does Not Mean He’s Gone Away”

A top Tory MP gives the view from London on the challenges facing the West—from within and without.

Democracy Watch
The Long Freedom Slump

The good news is that democracy is not declining, at least in the aggregate. The bad news is that developing countries have taken a turn for the worse.

Graphic by Danielle Desjardins
Hope vs. Fear
The Star Wars Theory of History

Jon Meacham’s new book casts U.S. history as a battle between the forces of darkness and light, with all-powerful Presidents dueling for the nation’s soul.

Opening Bids
Europe’s Campaign Season Is Just Beginning

The spat between France and Italy has become the template for the European electoral battle to come—a fight for the soul of the European Union.

Jan Matejko, “Stańczyk” via Wikimedia Commons
Putinism Revisited
The Futile Search for a Russian Ideology

Western Russia-watchers are mistaking the ramblings of a self-promoting apparatchik for a coherent articulation of the Kremlin’s ideology. Don’t believe the hype.

Bert Williams, via Wikimedia Commons.
Print & Pixels
More Ballast, Please

Rounding out the politically correct narrative about blackface.

Photo by Ian Cochrane via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
Democracy in Africa
Nigeria at the Ballot Box

As elections loom in Africa’s most populous country, a timely new book dispels common myths about Nigeria’s democracy—and reveals the broader stakes for the continent.

The Transatlantic Alliance Adrift
A Conservative Case for German Leadership in Europe

The future of the Transatlantic alliance depends on Berlin taking a more active role in asserting its interests and values.

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