Commentary

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Social Media is a Foreign Policy Problem Now

01/13/2026

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

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The Great University Unmasking

01/13/2026

For decades, Western universities sold themselves as the custodians of Enlightenment values: reason, open inquiry,...

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Climate Policy Without Adult Supervision

01/13/2026

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

01/13/2026

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