How the boomers robbed the young of all hope
Younger generations inherit a world in which the middle ranks are struggling almost everywhere
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Ain’t that good news
Rather than preparing to live out the rest of this century in misery, I’m now giddily optimistic
Why we need robust free speech laws
Recent clampdowns in Russia and China show just how foolish the prevailing US mood is
Revenge of the populists
How conservatism’s anti-elitists defeated the establishment
Joining the SoulCycle cult
Amid all of life’s mundanity, who doesn’t want to be an athlete?
Dan Savage has fallen out of love with the left
Savage is no cookie-cutter lefty, for all his haranguing in favour of baroque sexual lifestyles
Stop reading
Literacy is overrated
Cheugy, Gu and you
Luxury retail is as cheugy as any other kind
Children’s lives depend on parents’ rights
Trans ideologues want to hide your child’s problems from you
I am woman. Watch me push
In an effort to make everything inclusive, we are erasing women
Of Mahler and mandates
Why is the Kennedy Center discriminating against a Catholic trumpet player?
How to avoid World War Three
History can help presidents think about how to confront new challenges
What Ukraine means for Asia
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has scrambled Asia’s geopolitics
Springtime for Cold War nostalgics
Weariness with, and wariness of, the Cold War was very real and ought to give us pause
Why Putin won’t save NATO
The West’s best hope is to rediscover a self-affirming anti-imperialism on the nationalist right
In search of a Biden doctrine
His self-importance and lack of strategic thinking are not a recipe for a safer world