Anti-Semitism is on the march in Europe. But the European’s new turn toward isolationism goes even further than that.
Life in the state of nature may be "nasty, brutish and short," but states are not people, and Hobbes is not the ultra-realist he is made out to be.
Global elites inveigh against the evils of nationalism. But how will transnationalism save us from bad ideas? It never has before.
Despot Watch turns the spotlight on Islam Karimov, America's newest Central Asian ally.
Germany's September election displayed the effects of its 68ers' "Long March through the institutions." Herewith an assessment and a critique.
Potted phrases like "ethnic tensions" and "age-old religious differences" bear little relevance to the true causes of mountain conflicts.
Communism and fascism, cousins in disrepute.
A combination of fatigue and the declining importance of the state may make this divisive ideology easier to handle in the next century.
Europe, now liberated from the Cold War, as a whole is far more likely to face a period of acute economic stagnation, the undermining rather than the expansion of democracy, and serious social upheaval.
An ambition, inordinate and immense, one of those ambitions whichcould only possibly spring in the bosoms of the oppressed, and couldonly find nourishment in the miseries of a whole nation, ferments inthe heart of the Russian people.
