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The Unending Search for Racism

The debate about Rickard Andersson’s killing spree has been informed by an unhealthy discourse about race and immigration in Sweden.

Dan Korn

6 Mar 2025 · 7 min read

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Antiscientific Vandalism

Musk and Trump are inflicting catastrophic damage on biomedical research.

Evan D Morris

3 Mar 2025 · 6 min read

The End of NATO, or The Sixth Impossible Thing

The Trump administration has liquidated the postwar international order.

Adam Garfinkle

1 Mar 2025 · 20 min read

The Christopher Wren Building at the College of William & Mary is an old building, at the end of an avenue of trees. .

Universities Are Worth Saving

Those seeking to address the crisis on America’s campuses should resist the tendency toward nihilism—the temptation to conclude that we need to just (metaphorically) burn it all down.

Jonathan Rauch

18 Feb 2025 · 14 min read

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Podcast #275: Christianity and the American Polity

Iona Italia talks to Brookings Institution senior fellow Jonathan Rauch about his latest book, Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Bargain with Democracy.

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6 Mar 2025 · 28 min read

Composite image of Tsar Nicholas II, Marco Polo and King Aššurbanipal.

Nicholas II, Aššurbanipal, and Marco Polo Walk into a Bookstore…

Quillette editor Jonathan Kay reviews three newly published history books about the Assyrian Empire, the fall of the Romanovs, and the travels of Marco Polo.

Jonathan Kay

6 Mar 2025 · 16 min read

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Hamilton and the Left

Consigned to the political wilderness, progressives and left-liberals could do a lot worse than shed their disdain for patriotism.

Brian Stewart

6 Mar 2025 · 6 min read

Karla Sofía Gascon is in her thirties. She has long, mid-brown hair and is wearing a colourful outfit.

Gender Bending Mobster Mash

With ‘Emilia Pérez,’ Jacques Audiard created—intentionally or unintentionally—a subversive assault on every plank of the current transgender credo.

Charlotte Allen

4 Mar 2025 · 16 min read

Windmills in a field of corn at sunset (or sunrise)

The Green Energy Delusion

The current approach to energy and environmental policy isn’t just unsustainable—it has put us on a collision course with reality.

Paul Brown

4 Mar 2025 · 14 min read

Friedrich Merz is a middle-aged white man with glasses. Seen here through a blurry lens.

German Democracy’s Uncertain Future

Friedrich Merz must take the concerns of ordinary citizens seriously—particularly on immigration and Islam. He must prove that such concerns can be addressed without veering into extremism.

Gerfried Ambrosch

4 Mar 2025 · 9 min read

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