America’s “Late 1940s Moment”
Time to Push Back Against the Revisionists

China and Russia are pushing a reluctant West to re-examine its most cherished assumptions about the shape of the global order.

Historical Troubles
Remembering Edgar Graham

Why can’t politicians in Northern Ireland agree that killing lawyers is wrong?

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Connecting the Dots
In Ukraine It’s Not Merely About Ukraine—Which Is Why the West Must Respond

Russia’s actions in Ukraine fit into a larger pattern of aggression. The West needs to push back.

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What Harvard Needs to Make Leaders

Harvard’s admissions policies are animated by three competing visions of leadership. On their own, none of these visions can produce good leaders.

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The Khashoggi Murder
Human Rights Suffers a Major Blow

President Trump’s dismissal of human rights in cases like that of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi will ultimately harm American interests.

Dilemmas Old and New
Change in Post-Putin Russia?

Putinist authoritarian rule has returned Russia to the dilemma confronting the Soviet Union at the end of the Brezhnev era: whether it can rethink or reformulate its fundamental purposes without un-leashing forces that its rulers cannot control.

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Religion & Politics
Evangelicalism and Its Electoral Discontents

Attempts to explain Evangelical politics face a simple but vexing question: Does Evangelicalism even exist as a unitary movement?

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Parallels
The Suffocation of History

Christopher Browning’s polemical analogizing of the Trump era to the death of the Weimar Republic overlooks a similarity between the two periods that is considerably less flattering to deplorable-denouncing “democrats.”

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Two Histories and a Future
American K-12 Education in Thrall

Despite all our 21st-century advances in education neuroscience and digital technology, our K-12 educational systems are still stuck in the 19th century.

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The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Securing the Peace

How the security issue, far from being an intractable impediment, could help set the foundations of an Israeli-Palestinian peace.

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