Modernity Made the West
In recent days, I’ve written that our civilization is astonishingly young. If it truly collapsed—and its lands were Islamized—it would amount to little more than a brief flash: something magnificent…
The Fall That Mirrors Our Own
Few historical episodes offer as rich an intellectual exercise as the fall of the Western Roman Empire. It wasn’t a single cataclysm like the fall of Constantinople. Rather, new peoples…
Post-Empire America and Europe’s Panic
Americans have, quite unintentionally, shattered the world of Europe’s liberal moralists — those who had grown comfortable with the prospect of an endless war and an endless pile of corpses.…
The Last Hostage of the Ukraine War
There are, broadly speaking, two ways of approaching political problems. One is embodied by the activists who chain themselves to bulldozers. They can afford to issue unlimited demands, insist on…
The Most Destructive Power in Our Universe
The leaders of the United States and Russia appear to have converged on a common path to end the war in Ukraine. NATO will get far less than it once…
Hollow Ambitions
The surge in psychological problems among children and young adults is often blamed on social media, but the story begins earlier. Social platforms accelerated the trend and gave it sharper…