Europe’s Failure to Protect
The borders of the Schengen Area are open to virtually anyone who has a passport and can afford a few dollars, and Muslim communities have emerged in every country of…
The Last Moral Advantage
The foundational legitimizing myth of today’s liberal regime is that it is justified simply—and, in fact, solely—by its moral superiority to the former Communist one. Even if nothing goes right…
Desire and Rejection
A colleague accuses me of getting evolutionary principles wrong. We are arguing over whether women’s unavailability increases men’s interest, and whether women really use it that way. In fact, these…
Who Controls the Streets?
We discuss what leads young people to wreck cities, overturn cars, and set buildings on fire. But that is only a small part of the problem. The heart of the…
The New Conformists
The French youth are supposedly staging a revolution. Really? Today’s seventeen-year-olds are doing exactly what their liberal teachers and liberal parents taught them to do, if they come from liberal…
The End of Market Fundamentalism
I am preparing a lecture on some of the most interesting figures in contemporary American political thought. As I work through their ideas, which naturally diverge in many directions, I…