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Memorializing McCain
America Through the Looking Glass

For all the media portrayals of McCain’s memorial service as unifying moment, Trump’s supporters are more likely to see it as the Swamp in arms.

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Pipeline Problems
Russian Gas and the Case for Sanctions

Today, Washington has two tools for easing Europe’s vulnerability to Russian energy influence: the threat of sanctions on the Kremlin’s pipeline project, and exports of American liquefied natural gas to Europe.

Not So Simple
Burning Questions in the West

It’s not just the politics of climate change prevention that are knotty in the United States. Adaptation is proving just as difficult.

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Phony Philanthropy
Change You Can’t Believe In

A new book argues that our technocratic elite have succumbed to a “new faith” that promises worldly utopia but instead perpetuates injustice. Perhaps they might take lessons from an older one.

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Retroviews
Fromm 1941 to Now

Sometimes even flawed books have their merits. Take Erich Fromm’s Escape from Freedom

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Values and Interests
China Cracks Down in Xinjiang

Beijing’s intensifying campaign of repression against the Uighurs carries important implications for U.S. interests in Asia.

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With Friends Like These
Why Pakistan Won’t Cooperate

Recent overtures notwithstanding, the Trump Administration should have no illusions that Pakistan will help advance its goals in combatting terror or ending the Afghan war. 

Democracy, Development & the Rule of Law
Interrogating Identity

A conversation with Richard Aldous on the origins of modern identity politics.

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Soft Despotism
The Bulverizing of the American Mind

A new book by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff gives good advice but undermines its entire project in the process.

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A Man in Full
The Right Stuff, and Other Stuff

Tom Wolfe contained multitudes, too—some of them, at least, lasting contributions to American literature.

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