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Does Trump Mean the End of the End of History?
Shikha Dalmia, Reason
Yoram Hazony on 'The Virtue of Nationalism'
Max Diamond, RealClearBooks
Woodward's Trump Book Missed Everything That Matters
David Frum, Atlantic
An Epic Tragedy: The Vietnam War's Mountain of Mendacities
George Will, NR
George Scialabba, Radical Democrat
Jedediah Purdy, The New Republic
What Comes After Postmodernism?
Chris Morgan, Modern Age
America, the Ongoing Experiment
Simon Winchester, New Statesman
Identity Politics May Divide Us, But We Can't Unite Without It
Carlos Lozada, WP
The Nightmare From Which Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Trying Not to Awake
O. Traldi, Areo
The Magic of Being Out of Touch
Hugh McIntosh, The Millions
How San Francisco's Democrats Made Jim Jones
Daniel Flynn, DC Examiner
In Murukami's New Novel, Painter's Inspiration Is Supernatural
Hari Kunzru, NYT
Book of the Week: 'Judicial Fortitude' by Peter J. Wallison
Max Diamond, RCB
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'Judicial Fortitude' by Peter J. Wallison

 By: Max Diamond

For years, conservatives and libertarians have been concerned about the growth of the administrative state — the sprawling array of administrative agencies that issue rules and regulations without much...

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The Last Man in Europe
Dennis Glover, Lit Hub
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Foster Huntington, Globe and Mail
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Does Trump Mean the End of the End of History?

Shikha Dalmia, Reason

Francis Fukuyama may yet prove to be right in predicting the end of history. But there is no doubt that he was premature. The idea that... Read More

Yoram Hazony on 'The Virtue of Nationalism'

Max Diamond, RealClearBooks

RealClearBooks: What do you understand by “nationalism”?Yoram Hazony: Nationalism is a principled standpoint that sees... Read More

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The alleged killing of a Washington Post columnist on the orders of the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, has triggered many... Read More

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George Will, NR

Early in his Marine Corps career, which he concluded as a four-star general, Walt Boomer was decorated for valor in Vietnam. He distilled... Read More

George Scialabba, Radical Democrat

Jedediah Purdy, The New Republic

It may strike a reader new to George Scialabba's writing as extraordinary that Slouching Toward Utopia, a new collection of his essays and... Read More

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Chris Morgan, Modern Age

ne of the earliest appearances of the term postmodern can be found in Leslie Fiedler's essay “Cross the Border—Close the... Read More

America, the Ongoing Experiment

Simon Winchester, New Statesman

The index of Jill Lepore's monumental new single-volume history of the United States runs to 43 pages and contains 5,456 entries. The first... Read More

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Carlos Lozada, WP

I'm Catholic, and these days that's hard. I'm an immigrant, though it wasn't my choice. I'm now a citizen, even if it took a few decades to... Read More

The Nightmare From Which Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Trying Not to Awake

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a-Nehisi Coates's new essay collection We Were Eight Years in Power is challenging and troubling, but the trouble does not derive... Read More

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Why did America put Franz Kafka in such a good mood? As his friend Max Brod remembered, Kafka worked on his ultimately unfinished novel about... Read More

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Dennis Glover, Lit Hub

Greenwich, July 1944. The sirens sounded once more, and the drum roll of the distant barrages resumed, getting louder as the firing crept... Read More

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International Affairs

Joseph Conrad and the Dawn of Globalization

“I am glad you've read the Heart of D. tho' of course it's an awful fudge,” Joseph Conrad wrote to Roger Casement in late 1903. Casement, an Irish diplomat working for the British Foreign Office, had just returned to London from Belgium's African colony, the Congo Free State, and was about to submit a report to Parliament detailing the existence of a vast system of slavery used to extract ivor Read More

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