Essays
Seán Keating, “Men of the South” (Crawford Art Gallery)
An Irish Homecoming
Your Roots Shall Make Ye Free

In his new memoir, Michael Brendan Dougherty rages against the atomizing effects of modern liberalism—and finds comfort in the binding ties of family, nation, and Church.

Strategic Delusions
Why Germany Coddles Iran

Berlin’s split with Washington on Iran long predates Trump—and it speaks to a dangerous naivety in German strategic thinking.

(Wikipedia Commons)
The Putin-splainers
Germany’s Russia Lobby

From Nietzsche to Mann to Merkel, German culture has long had a soft spot for Russia.

Film still via Wikimedia Commons
Silver Screen Reflections
The Magnificent Ambersons and the Age of Disruption

More than 75 years after its release, Orson Welles’s classic holds up as a visionary social prophecy.

Default Presumptions
The Burden of Debt

Both ends of the political spectrum have become increasingly cavalier about debt. They may live to regret it.

(Charles Poerson, Art Institute of Chicago)
Politics vs. Strategy
Jared Kushner’s Peace Plan Would Be a Disaster

The only way to protect the long-term viability of the best aspects of the Kushner plan is to kill the plan.

Thierry Ehrmann, Abode of Chaos via Flickr
China's Long Game
The Sources of CCP Conduct

The Chinese Communist Party is hard-wired for hostile expansion—and it poses a threat to the free world unlike any since George Kennan’s time.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille-Corot, “Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld” (Wikimedia Commons)
Hadestown on Broadway
Orpheus and the Wall

Broadway’s latest smash is a vivid reimagining of the Orpheus myth for our own troubled times.

Technology and Liberal Democracy
The New Face of Tyranny

If there is one thing that human beings cannot resist, it is the temptation to busy themselves with the lives of others.

(Wikimedia Commons)
Unrest in North Africa
Sudan’s Half-Revolution

Sudan’s youth have succeeded in forcing its longtime dictator to step down. But if history is any guide, this may not be quite the triumph they imagined.

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