Flooded with Migrants
Holland rediscovers Geert Wilders.
Articles by Christopher Caldwell
Germany, Growing Desperate
War, terrorism, immigration, and America.
Unfair Harvard
Did the Court actually abolish affirmative action?
Ungovernable France
A divided country lurches toward nationalism.
India’s Uprising
The world’s largest democracy, united as never before.
It’s Only Rock and Roll
Rock and Roll is dead.
Why Are We in Ukraine?
A steep bill comes due for decades of democracy promotion.
Boris Johnson’s Party Politics
Is the prime minister who saved Brexit headed for the exit?
Poland Against the Progressives
The continent’s most resolute defender of sovereignty.
France on the Verge of Civil War
The rise of Éric Zemmour.
Little Italy
Less populous, more populist.
There Goes Robert E. Lee
His eclipse in American life.
Plymouth Rock Landed on Them
The immigration crisis of 1620.
America, Cowering
What civil rights law has become.
Pledging Allegiance
Dual citizenship, dual loyalty, and inequality.
The Price of the 1980s
Debt, decline, and immigration.
The Price of the 1980s
From Saving the Earth to Ruling the World
The transformation of the environmental movement.
Why Hasn’t Brexit Happened?
The British constitution in crisis.
Hungary and the Future of Europe
Viktor Orbán's escalating conflict with liberalism.
What is Populism?
For better and for worse, a democracy movement.
Sending Jobs Overseas
Globalization’s benefits are hard to explain and its damage hard to diagnose.
Sanctimony Cities
The world of the anti-Trumpers.
The Hidden Costs of Immigration
Liberalized immigration is a policy that cannot be carried out without simultaneous injuries to democracy.
The Prince
Vladimir Putin as Machiavellian statesman.
Reckoning with Reagan
A review of Reagan: The Life, by H.W. Brands.
Letting Bygones Be Bygones
A review of American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity, by Christian G. Appy
The Browning of America
A review of Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America, by William H. Frey.
Twilight of Democracy
A senior fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Francis Fukuyama has lately been speaking ill of democracy to readers unused to hearing it spoken ill of.
Freudian Slip
Christopher Caldwell reviews the legacy of Freudian psychoanalysis
Schoolmaster to the World
Freud believed that Wilson, his head ringing with scripture, mistook himself at times for the son of God, writes Christopher Caldwell.
Information Slaves
A review of Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think, by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier
From Plato to NATO
A review of On Politics: A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present, by Alan Ryan
Gay Rites
A review of From the Closet to the Altar: Courts, Backlash, and the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage, by Michael J. Klarman
The Wealth of Nations
A review of Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty, by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
Live and Let Die
A review of 100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Careers and Relationships to Family and Faith, Sonia Arrison
Black Like Me
A review of The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, by David Remnick.