Essays
Managing the Mega-Trend of Our Time
Fixing Our Self-Defeating Immigration Policy

How U.S. policy incentivizes our immigration problems, and how both radical restrictions and “open borders” schemes distract us from genuine solutions.

“The Moneylender and His Wife,” Quentin Matsys (Public Domain)
Banking and Government
Bigger, Fewer, Riskier: The Evolution of U.S. Banking Since 1950

For all that has changed in the past 70 years, one thing that hasn’t is the tight connection between government and the banks.

Star-Crossed Cultures
Cold War Kids

Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War is an ambivalent film: Though it makes no apologies for communism, its attitude toward the West feels decidedly bitter.

Claude Monet, Woman with a Parasol via National Gallery of Art
Pop Culture & Public Policy
Beyond Mary Poppins: The Politics and Economics of Real-Life Nannies

From Roma to Mary Poppins Returns, fictional portraits of nannies are more popular than ever. Yet the reality of their lives—and the dysfunction of our public policy on care work—is too often obscured.

Goya, Saturn Devouring His Children via Wikimedia Commons
Arrested Development
The Russian Private Sector Eats Its Own

The arrest of an American businessman in Russia echoes the Khodorkovsky and Browder episodes from the early 2000s.

Economic Literacy
A Failure of Pedagogy

From Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Donald J. Trump, our political class is profoundly ignorant of basic economics.

Jean Louis Forain, Public Domain
Bibi's Balancing Act
Can Netanyahu Lose?

This April’s elections in Israel are no longer a sure thing for Netanyahu, but even with his rivals teaming up against him, the race is still Bibi’s to lose.

Arms Control
It’s Time to Retire the INF Treaty

Nostalgia might be comforting, but it should not compel us to hang on to a treaty that does not reflect today’s global security landscape.

Natalia Goncharova, Cyclist (via Wikimedia Commons)
Coping with Doping
Getting Off the Sidelines

How the United States can confront Russian doping and start to fix international sport governance.

The Parlmt. dissolved, or, the Devil turn’d fortune teller, 1774 (via Library of Congress)
A Conversation with Tom Tugendhat
“Just Because You Don’t Believe in the Devil Does Not Mean He’s Gone Away”

A top Tory MP gives the view from London on the challenges facing the West—from within and without.

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