Katsushika Hokusai, “The Great Wave”
The Quest to Conquer Risk
How Businesses Master Disaster

Two new books offer complementary takes on best practices for understanding and adapting to the fundamentally changing nature of business risk.

Carl Hoeckner, “The Mob” (1935)
The Future of Liberalism
Ignoring Immigration Is Empowering the Far Right

Western political establishments must make a choice: Either address popular fears about immigration, or voters will elect illiberals willing to do so.

Frederick Walker, “The Wayfarers” (1868)
Whose Europe?
The Eastern Blind Spot in German Leadership

How young democracies may find themselves stuck between Berlin and Moscow.

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5G-willikers!
The Tragedy of Our Tech-Besotted Age

Plumbing the origins of America’s rampant consumerism in its relentless technological optimism.

The Psychology of Arms Control
The INF Treaty Was Built on Fantasy—But It Was Useful Fantasy

Yet there are good reasons not to mourn its passing.

Managing the Mega-Trend of Our Time
Fixing Our Self-Defeating Immigration Policy

How U.S. policy incentivizes our immigration problems, and how both radical restrictions and “open borders” schemes distract us from genuine solutions.

“The Moneylender and His Wife,” Quentin Matsys (Public Domain)
Banking and Government
Bigger, Fewer, Riskier: The Evolution of U.S. Banking Since 1950

For all that has changed in the past 70 years, one thing that hasn’t is the tight connection between government and the banks.

The Effects of Bad Government, Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Global Disorder
The Sources of the West’s Decline

The growing problems in the Transatlantic community long precede the Trump Administration, Brexit, and the rise of populist movements.

Jean Louis Forain, Public Domain
Bibi's Balancing Act
Can Netanyahu Lose?

This April’s elections in Israel are no longer a sure thing for Netanyahu, but even with his rivals teaming up against him, the race is still Bibi’s to lose.

The Transatlantic Alliance Adrift
A Conservative Case for German Leadership in Europe

The future of the Transatlantic alliance depends on Berlin taking a more active role in asserting its interests and values.

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