Viewpoints
The Long March West
Will China Drive a Wedge Between the US and Europe?

Beijing’s financial and military inroads into Europe are calling into question America’s traditional assumptions about Transatlantic cooperation.

(Man Ray, Art Institute of Chicago)
Electoral Reform
The Long Game of Democratic Reform

A growing array of reformers are coming to see the logic of “master reform,” the one most likely to break the logjam on all the others: Ranked Choice Voting.

“Visegrád,” by Károly Markó the Elder
Old Habits
Against Visegrád

Sometimes, old concepts are simply no longer useful.

Print & Pixels
The Washington-Hollywood Pact

The nation’s capital and its dream factory have long worked together to maximize the export of American films to the rest of the world, on the theory that doing so is both good business and good diplomacy. Is this still the case?

(James Gillray, Art Institute of Chicago)
representation
Brexit’s Democracy Lesson

Asking “the people” to do the job of governing, even for an incompetent representative government, is asking for even more trouble.

The Old Lady at 70
Start Planning NATO’s 100th Birthday

Alliances die when they win. So NATO should have gone the way of all flesh when the Soviet Union committed suicide in 1991. Yet it has not only endured, but also expanded. And based on enduring interest, the Alliance will survive Donald Trump, too.

(Marcantonio Raimondi, Art Institute Of Chicago)
Culture & Ideology
Toward a More Discriminating Theory of Discrimination

These days, it’s all too easy to conclude that a decision one happens to disagree with must be motivated by invidious prejudice. And it’s easier still when the list of traits someone could “discriminate” against keeps growing and now includes things like “culture” and “ideology.”

Taxation & Representation
DC Statehood? There’s a Better Way

How to give District residents all the rights due to them without the trouble of adding a new state to the union.

(Ivan Albright, Art Institute of Chicago)
Demand Transparency
The Online Tempest, And How To Tame It

The internet is rapidly eroding what Joseph Pieper once called “the right to our share in reality.” We won’t recover that share unless we start insisting on transparency.

George Wesley Bellows, “The Germans Arrive” (Art Institute of Chicago)
Old Problems New Perils
Germany: The Pacifist Menace

Don’t let its military weakness fool you; Germany wields tremendous power in Europe, and Brexit will only exacerbate that.

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