Fate of the West
Where Western civilization is headed. History, demography, culture and power, with serious attention to both decline and renewal.
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Who Was Emily Brontë?
A new biography tries to reconstruct her everyday life.
When Government Fails, Working People Pick Up the Slack
This is happening in every working-class and poor community across the country.
The Secrecy in Courts Dilemma
What to do about the sealing order crisis.
Meet the Military Man Threatening to Unseat Netanyahu
Gadi Eisenkot has been unrestrained in his criticism of the Israeli prime minister. But he’s no dove.
Did Ukrainian Drones Wipe Out Russia’s Bot Networks?
Attacks on Russian data centers knocked out its version of Google, but claims that bot activity plummeted were unfounded.
Trump’s Trade War Is Helping Mark Carney Transform Canada
How the prime minister is using the rift with the U.S. to boost his country’s global standing.
Horseshoe Theory at Cornell
Both traditionalists and progressives deny women agency when it comes to sex.
Why Hamas Cheered Navi Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize
Pillay’s human rights career hid the commitments of a campaigner behind the authority of a judge.
Foucault’s Idol of Nothingness
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Michel Foucault. He was influential in his lifetime, but forty-two years after his death, while contemporaries such as Derrida have
Why the Death Penalty Is a Sore Point for Papal Authority
Pope Leo XIV marked World Day Against the Death Penalty, observed on October 10, with the following message on X: The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an
How Modern Dating Left Ordinary Men Behind
There is only one group that has far worse dating outcomes than almost everyone else: young, single men without college degrees. That’s because the system is rigged against them, writes Daniel Cox.
Sally Rooney Is No Free Speech Hero
If you believe best-selling Irish author Sally Rooney, then she has just been censored by the United Kingdom’s government. On Wednesday, Rooney announced that her publisher had concluded that the sale of her novels in Britain could constitute a serious criminal offense, and so the books were being withdrawn from sale in the country.
How Long Will Katie Zacharia Last as Press Secretary? We Asked Anthony Scaramucci
Anthony Scaramucci knows what it’s like to have a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day working for Donald Trump. As the president’s communications director in 2017, Scaramucci ended his first and only White House briefing by blowing a kiss to the press as he left the podium. Ten days later, he was fired.
How Debanking Took Hold Inside the Biggest Banks
Only two years ago, the idea that some Americans were being “debanked,” or cut off from financial institutions after being deemed politically incorrect, extreme, or dangerous, was often dismissed as a conspiracy or an accident.
Surprise! Labour’s Right-wing Budget
Are Burnham and Healey diverging?
Bon courage to the French protesters
They can learn from India’s cockroaches
The grandma sex trade in Turkey
Holidaymakers are exploiting foreign men
The diplomat dividing Trump World
David Milstein is a lightning rod for Israel tensions
The Opioid Crisis Looms Over Michigan’s Senate Race
One of the most important things I’ve learned in my experience with opioid addiction, and later recovery, is the virtue of honesty. Most people in recovery will tell you it’s hard to get clean without a “searching and fearless moral inventory” of your past transgressions. It’s a way of cataloging the times you may have been wrong, so you can hopefully make it up to yourself and everyone else when you’re ready. This process is necessary for growth and change.
Something Like Sabotage
How should Ukraine respond to America’s treachery?
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