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…
Free Speech by Balance of Power
You may have already heard about Bill Gates’s recent turn on global climate change. On his blog, he published a long essay — here are the essential points. Gates insists…
Reading books and modernity
“Reading is not modern,” declares a catchy promotional slogan—if I recall correctly, from the Czech site for conservative philosophy Delian Diver. The message is obvious: we read books because we…