Essays
China Trade Fight
The Enduring Promise of the Trans-Pacific Partnership

The TPP was a good trade deal that, among other things, offered the United States important leverage in its ongoing negotiations with Beijing. It’s still possible to join, and realize those benefits.

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Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
One Concrete Way to Start Decoupling with China

It’s time to be more strategic about trade with China. Revitalizing the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States—creating a CFIUS 2.0—is the right way to do it.

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COVID-19 and Anti-Semitism
The Roots (and Risks) of Netflix’s Unorthodox

Netflix’s hit show Unorthodox is just the latest entertainment about young people fleeing orthodox Jewish communities. It’s worth asking why these narratives are resonating now.

Designation Diplomacy
Who’s Afraid of Boris Nemtsov?

New developments in Prague, involving a suitcase of ricin and a diplomatic spat, suggest that Putin still is afraid—over five years after Nemtsov’s grisly demise.

“Gorta” – Lilian Lucy Davidson
A Tale of Two Cities
The Coming Hunger

People are starting to go hungry—at a time of abundance.

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Pandemic Pranks
Chasing David

I’d always been a prankster. Now, in the Great Social Distancing of 2020, it was time for someone to get me back.

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Lessons from Literature
The Pandemic Within, the Pandemic Without

Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year vividly records how human nature can devolve amid a pandemic—and challenges us all to grow in a time of crisis.

“Accusing the anointers in the great plague of Milan in 1630” (Wikimedia Commons)
Lessons from Literature
Life and Death in Bergamo

A classic short story by Danish writer Jens Peter Jacobsen—notorious in his time for its pessimism—offers a surprising kernel of hope in our own time of plague.

The Birth of a Cult
The Lying Soul of Communism

Lenin was born 150 years ago this week. His death 54 years later marked the emergence of a frightful new quasi-religious sect, with Josef Stalin as its high priest.

COVID-19 and Anti-Semitism
The Oldest Hatred Amid the Latest Threat

It’s too early to tell how Jews will fare as societies are destabilized by the coronavirus pandemic. But there’s little reason to be complacent or optimistic about likely outcomes.

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