Dark Charities
The funders and nonprofits reshaping American life.
Essays
Speaking Trumpian
Persuasion in a post-oratorical age.
America’s Red Shift
Now who’s on the wrong side of history?
Defending Democracy
It’s neither easy nor simple.
The Trump-Proofers
Exporting America’s civil war to Britain, France, and NATO.
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.