How self-love and an ethic of struggle came to set the tone of life in the “progressive” West.

Scottish independence could light the way for various kindred movements across Europe—and beyond.

Matti Friedman’s Spies of No Country is a compelling tale of Israeli espionage. But more than that, it is a meditation on Israel’s national origin story.

Spain’s far Right populists won’t win the elections tomorrow. But they are winning nonetheless.

The pre-emptive strike on Joe Biden has failed. Will the movement fail with it?

Conservative jeremiads that condemn liberal democracy as irredeemably flawed damage the cause of freedom at a moment of mounting vulnerability.

Capitalism is still the best economic system humanity has produced. But it is long overdue for reform.

The regimes in Algiers and Rabat survived the original Arab Spring more or less unscathed—but the latest tumult suggests that the old methods of governing may no longer be enough.

Treating it like one paradoxically enfeebles our foreign policy thinking—and our will to respond.

If Pat Moynihan were still with us today, he would be impressed by our comprehensive rejection of constraint.