When people hear the word “nationalism” today, their minds frequently turn to the disasters of 20th-century Europe. Like racism, nationalism is thought of as an irrational condition reasonable people would...
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I spent some time on the campaign trail in 2016, and one thing that struck me about the genuine Trump supporters I met was that they seemed... Read More
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From the outside, 29 Harley Street looks like any other office block in central London. But it is an entry port to Moneyland, Oliver... Read More
Socrates died by drinking hemlock, condemned to death by the people of Athens. Albert Camus met his end in a car that wrapped itself around a... Read More
In 1999, when Scott McNealy, the founder and CEO of Sun Microsystems, declared, “You have zero privacy…get over... Read More
A remarkable movement is underway in the legal world, unlike any other during my lifetime. Growing skepticism regarding the conceptual... Read More
The election of Donald Trump has opened up an unprecedented chance to rethink the pieties of American foreign policy since World War II.... Read More
When James Fenimore Cooper died on Sepember 14, 1851, a day before his 62nd birthday, friends and admirers planned a gala to celebrate... Read More
Most stories about relationships in literature, TV, and film end one of two ways: The couple breaks up, or else they live happily ever after.... Read More
When people hear the word “nationalism” today, their minds frequently turn to the disasters of 20th-century Europe. Like racism, nationalism is thought of as an irrational condition reasonable people would...
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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“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
The election of Donald Trump has opened up an unprecedented chance to rethink the pieties of American foreign policy since World War II. It raises in particular the question of whether the mainstream position of the foreign policy establishment since 1941—a globally oriented strategy of promoting markets and “peace” through diplomacy and force—is working optimally. Amid endless war and gr Read More
