The Lost Glamour of Progressivism
I had grown accustomed to thinking of nostalgia as belonging to the conservative side of today’s debates. It is conservatives, after all, who sometimes look back with a tear in…
Lawyers, Managers, and the Intellectual Proletariat
We often criticize the excessive number of students in the humanities. And rightly so. The numbers studying political science and related fields are indefensible. We see them marching in anti-national…
Trump, the Fed, and the Myth of “Independence”
The media repeat endlessly that Donald Trump is threatening the independence of the Federal Reserve, endangering the world’s monetary order, and behaving like a reckless dictator. But let us look…
No Great Civilization Without Great Constructions
Tomáš Březina—known as the “Concrete King,” a man who built an empire of construction materials and now prepares to enter politics—has been releasing episodes of his podcast. The latest is…
From Ideology to Nationhood: Stalin, Khamenei, and the Politics of Survival
The German invasion of the Soviet Union brought not only devastation but also a transformation in Stalin’s rule and Stalinist ideology. The regime realized that repression alone would not suffice;…
Crisis, Class, and the Birth Gap
Demographers have long observed a pattern that emerges whenever economic crisis strikes: different social strata do not respond in the same way to uncertainty. Among university-educated women, childbearing is postponed.…