Our Brave New World
Of Deer, Terrorism, and Liberal Triumphalism

The world keeps getting uglier, and the American political establishment keeps getting more and more caught up in glittering fantasies and theories about inevitable liberal triumph.

International Law & Statecraft
Karadzic Behind Bars, Assad Still Killing

The world is producing mass murders and genocidaires much faster than courts can try them.

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Russia & The West
The Long Standoff

Two years after the annexation of Crimea, it is clear that neither Russia nor the West is prevailing—in large part because one does not have enough strength, while the other lacks will.

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Civil Society
With the Anti-Trumpers in New York

This weekend’s anti-Trump protest in New York featured a fair amount of anti-police and anti-free speech rhetoric from the protest leaders. Even so, the course of wisdom is not simply to criticize the protests, but to swell the anti-Trump cause.

Not The Way Forward
French Socialists Kiss Big Business, Kick Small

Buckling to street protests and internal divisions, Hollande’s government backtracks on reforms that would have benefited small businesses—the engines of future growth.

Boondoggles
The Dead End of Mass Transit

Joel Kotkin shows just how badly the bet on mass transit has paid off across America.

Opening
The Great Flip

Cuban-American businessmen, long a bulwark against any opening towards Castro’s Cuba, are today clamoring hardest for the embargo to be lifted.

After Blue
Transcending the Single Family Home

The single family home, an artifact of the blue model world, is slowly falling out of favor across America. It’s time for zoning laws to catch up.

Basic Arithmetic
The Global Blue Model Crisis

Twenty OECD countries have $78 trillion in pension liabilities—with much of that figure unfunded.

Blue Governance
No Light at End of Tunnel for Public Pensions

The numbers just don’t add up, and the day of reckoning draws ever nearer.

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