A Devil of a Deal
Putin will rejoice at this prisoner exchange, secure in the knowledge that hostage-taking has not yet reached the point of diminishing returns.
Brian Stewart
· 6 min read
Politics
A collection of 503 posts
The Feckless Lebanese State
American money and goodwill cannot fix a state when its own people refuse to make the sacrifices necessary to establish and defend effective, efficient, and responsible governance.
Eric Bordenkircher
· 8 min read
The Puzzle of Generational Politics
Disenchantment is leading younger generations to embrace a politics marked by anger and alienation.
Joel Kotkin
· 11 min read
Life in China’s Crosshairs
For the Taiwanese, independence is not just a matter of national pride, it is a requisite for their dignity and their right to choose their own civilisational path.
Liam Hunt
· 9 min read
An Interrupted Genocide
The widespread reluctance to describe the atrocities of 7 October correctly is an impediment to peace.
Jeffrey Herf
· 11 min read
A Question of Legitimacy
The Rassemblement National was thwarted by a coalition of convenience, but it remains the party with the largest grip on French voters.
John Lloyd
· 10 min read
Now Comes the Hard Part
The UK’s new Labour government enjoys a huge mandate, but it must contend with imposing challenges at home and abroad.
John Lloyd
· 14 min read
Liberalism and the West’s ‘Crisis of Meaning’
Many liberals are strangely eager to concede that liberal societies are morally and spiritually bankrupt without religion to give life meaning.
Matt Johnson
· 25 min read
The Travesty of the Assange Plea Deal
The complacency of American liberalism has been demonstrated yet again in its inability, or unwillingness, to guard the national interest.
Brian Stewart
· 7 min read
The War Against Truth
It has long been a cliché that China is inscrutable to foreigners, but it is also becoming inscrutable to itself.
Aaron Sarin
· 9 min read
Sin and Social Science
Glenn Loury’s startlingly frank confessional memoir offers a complex portrait of a brilliant scholar and a profoundly flawed man.
John Lloyd
· 14 min read
Stop Decriminalising Crime
When a gap opens between what the law punishes and what society believes should be punished, people lose respect for the law and are more likely to violate it.
Paul H. Robinson
· 11 min read
The Quincy Institute’s Middle East Fantasies
The positions adopted by the think tank’s scholars during the war in Gaza are illustrative of its overall Middle East agenda: appease Iran and demonise Israel.
Leon Hadar
· 15 min read
In Defence of Manifest 2024
The Guardian’s reporting on a gathering of heterodox thinkers is truly lamentable journalism.
Theo Jaffee
· 8 min read
The Road to Neo-Feudalism
Western societies stand on the brink of a great reversion towards a demographically and economically stagnant society reminiscent of the Dark Ages.
Joel Kotkin
· 9 min read