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archived 16 Jul 2024 16:55:00 UTC

Things got very, very close to being very, very bad.

A Minor Tempest in the NatCon Teapot

Today’s great power competition with China is unlike anything we have seen in the past

Marine Le Pen lost. That doesn’t mean France won.

Britain’s general election produced a result no less seismic for being predicted

U.S. policy in Congo is enabling the slide toward ethnic violence against Congolese Tutsis.

Free to Be…You and Me is a wildly successful 1972 album, with a 1974 companion book and TV special, conceived by the actress Marlo Thomas. The book, Thomas wrote in the Foreword, has “stories and poems and songs that would help boys and girls feel free to be who they are and who they want […]

Joy Pullmann reveals how queer politics has initiated a revolution toward a new sexually perverse regime.

The surge in support for National Rally reflects the abject failure of Macron’s technocratic centrism.

First Biden, then Macron and next week the unfortunate Rishi Sunak. Japan’s Kishida, Germany’s Scholz and Canada’s Trudeau remain in office only because

On the eve of going to prison, populism’s grand strategist talks about what another Trump presidency would look like and the rise of MAGA-type movements around the world.

The debasement of the U.S. defense industrial base began, ironically, under Ronald Reagan, and won’t be reversed until we abandon the free-market fundamentalism he introduced.

France’s presidents famously have a lot of power — arguably more than any of their counterparts in other democratic presidential systems. This power,

As French Muslims increasingly align with Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s pro-Hamas party, that danger, for now, comes from the left.

Let’s recognize the giant web, a revolutionary ecosystem, that spans the globe from Havana to Shanghai and coordinates and sustains these often-violent, always-threatening protests.

Edmund Burke warned that the state seeking to re-order society tends to destroy the natural associations that alone make people decent citizens.

A government with a permanent deficit and a bloated military. A bogus ideology pushed by elites. Poor health among ordinary people. Senescent leaders. Sound familiar?

It would be prudent for American policymakers to focus not on dismantling Iran’s hold on Iraq but rather on diluting its influence.

RFK Jr.’s book on Anthony Fauci reveals an administrative state whose corruption and incompetence extend far beyond any one pandemic.

The study of great-power competition between China and the broader West (including the United States, Europe, and the Anglosphere) today tends toward tunnel vision with its focus fixed on the narrow range of issues most familiar to geopolitical analysts in Washington, including economic and security affairs. Less tangible issues of culture, society, morality, and ideology are largely ignored—even though it is precisely such issues that are now driving increasingly ferocious and fundamental political debates within the West over the future of our civilization.

The Biden administration just plunged the United States and the West deeper into a proxy war with Russia.

As competition with China intensifies, the US cannot afford to alienate Japan and India as nations with a strong sense of national identity

Expansion was a misstep, but the situation is not unsalvageable—history offers clues to a better way.