Commentary

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The Last Thing We Shared

What Dolly Parton’s passing revealed about the country we used to be. America lost more...
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Protect and Serve Whom?

Two Texas police officers. Two separate incidents. Two remarkably similar misinterpretations of the First Amendment. ...
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Why We Call It the Greatest Country

Every 4th of July, millions of people around the country drape themselves in red, white, and...
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Social Media is a Foreign Policy Problem Now

For years, diplomats and analysts treated social media as a sideshow: a noisy but ultimately...
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The Great University Unmasking

For decades, Western universities sold themselves as the custodians of Enlightenment values: reason, open inquiry,...
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Climate Policy Without Adult Supervision

Climate change is a serious problem being addressed, in many capitals, with unserious politics. On...
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The West’s New Isolationism: Comfort Masquerading as Principle

In the 1990s, Western foreign policy elites convinced themselves that history had effectively been tamed....