A country’s capacity to provide for minority protections, and more broadly its cultivating the kind of tolerance that makes such protections unnecessary, is simply a mark of liberal civilization.

Trump's trade war didn't just hurt the economy—it exposed how quickly everyone, from politicians to the public, abandons good sense under pressure.

Far from thinking that ‘might makes right’, the great historian’s analysis of war identifies a vice common to all states

On our curious Hungarian fixation

The perpetrators of these crimes are not only threatening Jews, but the rule of law and the government's ability to protect civil society

In the internet age, in the absence of direct social interaction, we have been compelled to invent people to get mad at.

Perhaps the closest thing President Donald Trump has to a bedrock principle is his instinctive opposition to any arrangement that favors — or seems to favor — the other guy. The notion that someone…

Its modern meaning is less suggestive of obligations than of a desired status that confers benefits.

I felt I needed a bit of a break from heavier themes, and this post was inspired by my friend Ryan Floyd of Detached Notes. He has belatedly made the excellent decision to get into vinyl and has been ...

or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Hegemon

The 2020s are entering the era of the 'woke right', where permissible language is dictated by right-wing governments.

Looking back and forward on the second anniversary of the 10/7 attacks

Looking back and forward on the second anniversary of the 10/7 attacks

On the mental resistance of despair as political practice

Considerations on Dante, Caetano Veloso, Jason Stanley, and me

An increasingly multicultural Canada is increasingly hostile towards Canada’s Jews

Over three decades ago, Francis Fukuyama published his famous End of History and the Last Man, in which he declared that history (or rather, “History”), meaning an unfolding process of clashing ideas,...

Following her defeat in the 2016 general election, Hillary Clinton published a book titled What Happened. While that tome is not considered a classic work of political analysis, its implied titular qu...

Following her defeat in the 2016 general election, Hillary Clinton published a book titled What Happened. While that tome is not considered a classic work of political analysis, its implied titular qu...

David Polansky on why democracies fear greatness -- and why they shouldn't.

A guest essay from David Polansky on why everyone defends what they know best.

The salient questions are whether universities are meaningfully generating or preserving human knowledge and whether their students are capable of receiving it.

The great historian/poet/all-around Renaissance man Robert Conquest famously formulated several laws of politics, of which the first ran: Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.

The fight isn’t between conservatives and liberals anymore. It’s are you pro-system or anti-system?

Humour is a strange thing. Back when Christopher Hitchens was both alive and still playing his assigned role of Naughty Little Provocateur, he attracted some controversy over an article titled “Why…

Humour is a strange thing. Back when Christopher Hitchens was both alive and still playing his assigned role of Naughty Little Provocateur, he attracted some controversy over an article titled “Why…

Six writers react to the new administration’s tariff diplomacy.

Political theorist David Polansky says Justin Trudeau has it wrong: Canada has a core identity. “It’s a gorgeous country. It’s a stable country."

A Genre That Was Incomprehensibly Outshone by Its Brethren Reggae and Ska

Righteous idealism about immigration has wrecked the liberal project across the world.

Righteous idealism about immigration has wrecked the liberal project across the world.

One could say you’re better off looking for Bob Dylan in his music. But, of course, you won’t really find him there either.

Canada made it through the tumultuous 1980s by doing what it does best.

Canada made it through the tumultuous 1980s by doing what it does best.