The American descent into madness
America went from the freest country in the world in December 2019 to a repressive and frightening place by July 2021. How?
Communism
Tuesday
Thursday
Has Xi Jinping overplayed his hand?
The Chinese Communist party at 100
Tuesday
Is communism authoritarian capitalism?
You certainly can abolish political freedom without abolishing market freedom — China proved it
Thursday
Biden’s Brezhnev vibes
Is the presumptive President-elect the candidate of American stagnation?
Sunday
The bloody decade: think America’s divided now? Try the 1970s
In 1974 alone, there were 2,044 bombings in America, with 24 people killed
Sunday
The New Republic’s useful idiot tour
Why not take a trip to Raúl Castro’s Cuba?
Thursday
No apology is ever enough for the digital mob
The most sorry person this week? American poet Anders Carlson-Wee.
Thursday
Enduring life under Chairman Mao
Rao Pingru is 94, and a born storyteller. His gripping graphic narrative weaves in and out of the violent, disruptive upheavals that marked China’s transition in the 20th century from an immemorial, apparently immutable imperial past to its current uneasy truce with the technology, morals and politics of the Western world. He was born in … Read more
