Don’t Be Misled by the Media, Cuba Isn’t Changing
After the nominal change in Cuba’s leadership, the New York Times managed to come out with the most New York Times headline ever: “More Black […]
Conservative Dissent on Syria: An Interview with Peter Hitchens
I was reading George Will on Syria. The piece consists of this: Obligatory reference to the Germans dropping chemical weapons. Wikipedia level knowledge of the […]
The Creeping and Creepy March of the Progressive Totalitarian Impulse
As a foreigner living in the United Kingdom, the first thought that occurred to me watching “The Death of Stalin” last month was how bleak and […]
Restoring the Sanctity of Sovereign National Borders
What can a government do if millions of unarmed people just keep walking towards your national border? Is it considered migration or invasion? The question […]
You Kant Be Serious
The Romantic movement pushed back particularly hard against Enlightenment ideals,” thunders Steven Pinker in his new book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, […]
Beltway Ducks Grand Strategy Debate Over Europe
This month marks the 100th anniversary of President Woodrow Wilson’s “14 Points”—the document that arguably formed the basis of a rule-based international order. There were […]
Trump’s Conservative-Realist Approach Will Outlast Trump
Anne Applebaum laments the death of Wilsonian world order, in her latest column for the Washington Post. Let us for a moment skip over the […]
EU and Anglo-American Interests Differ: Peter Hitchens Was Right
Two years ago, as a fresh doctoral researcher in the United Kingdom, I wrote an essay called “The Grand Strategy Debate London is Avoiding,” and […]
The Left’s Moral Kulturkampf Reaps the Whirlwind
Lena Dunham, queen of the Twitter “Listen and Believe” brigade, former “Girls” star, and self-declared feminist, initially defended her show’s male writer from a claim […]
Jihadist Insurgencies and Conservative Priorities
Western conservatives need to internalize the lessons of previous policy failures and adjust accordingly. In a recent statement, the MI5 chief Andre Parker said that Britain […]
Europe’s Imperial Dilemma
Europe has an imperial problem. Put simply, the European Union, formed as a political union to prevent war on the continent, is slowly morphing into […]