Self-righteous vandals
The attempt to prettify history is ugly
Features
Sunday
Sunday
Professing virtues
Not since the late 19th century in Germany have the Herr Professor Doktors been held in such high esteem
Saturday
Neocons come home to roost
Reagan was tarred as an extremist in much the same terms as Trump. Yet the neocons supported him
Sunday
Wuhdunnit? We have only suspicions, not proof
The idea that the virus is man-made is not just a crazy theory that Trump got from one of his golf buddies
Wednesday
We need a Pompeo Plan to tame the dragon
The demagogues’ answer is to repatriate American production overnight. But this is impossible
Monday
Putin needs Xi more than China needs Russia
A special relationship
Wednesday
Xi’s useful idiots against free speech
Free-thinking people everywhere should condemn those among us who facilitate China’s lies
Monday
Rebuilding #MeToo
Just because politics took the movement and made it toxic, doesn’t mean we can’t take it back
A new balance
America must deploy an industrial policy to strike a better balance between globalization and the national interest
Wednesday
When money dies
$1,200 isn’t going to stretch very far for workers who have lost their jobs, or even for those still employed
Monday
Him too: is Alec Klein a predator — or a victim?
An unwanted shoulder rub is a bit sleazy but it hardly places a man beyond redemption
Tuesday
There are lies, damned lies and epidemiological models
What will be the fatality rate of our insane overreaction?
Monday
What if a virus were ever used as a WMD?
We ain’t seen nothing yet
Thursday
After the lockdown, the breakdown
The Trump administration’s $1,200 subvention to citizens is a drop in the swelling ocean of debt
Wednesday
Who will win the corona wars?
History shows plagues are bad for big empires with weak frontiers: ask the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius
Tuesday
Sovereignty rules
The viruses-don’t-respect-borders slogan is dead wrong
Friday
Giving up Twitter for Lent went well
If I’m honest with myself, Twitter is the most hardcore addiction I have and it’s also the one that robs me of the most productivity
Wednesday
Right on: Boris Johnson’s Britain and the new political reality
Neoliberalism was a ruling-class project that was never popular with working-class citizens
Foreign policy is in a straitjacket
The Ivy League graduates who constitute America’s foreign policy elite think just like Robespierre
Saturday
Constrained by freedom: what do post-liberals want?
Liberalism may be a doctrine to organize your society by; it is not a doctrine to live your life by
