The Trump-Proofers
Exporting America’s civil war to Britain, France, and NATO.
Essays
Simone Weil’s Conversion
Political thought at the crossroads of time and eternity.
A Bug’s Life
Calamity, Catastrophe, Cataclysm
Euripides at war.
The Prince of Ancient Biographers
Long live Plutarch’s Lives.
Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago at 50
The masterpiece that helped topple the USSR.
Is Israel Defensible?
The cruel geostrategic logic of the Holy Land.
Life of the Party
Democrats and Republicans seek their futures.
Desert Places
The novels of Cormac McCarthy.
James Joyce and the Modernist Ambition
Pprrpffrrppffff.
Rebuild Penn Station
And revive classical architecture in New York.
Flooded with Migrants
Holland rediscovers Geert Wilders.