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Books We Loved Reading in 2023
Branko Milanovic on Globalization
Universities Are Drawing The Wrong Lessons From The Capitol Hill Hearing
Banning Hate Speech Is The Wrong Response to Ireland’s Riots
Why America Need Not Turn Every Country Into A Democracy
Episode 126: Nikki Vargas on the Roads Taken
The Inconvenient Truth About Climate Summits
Ridley Scott's Napoleonic Complex
We Need To Protect Election Workers
How Would Clausewitz See Modern War?
Philip Pettit on What It Means to Be Free
The Long-Lasting Legacy of the Spanish-American War
What the Algorithm Does to Young Girls
Defending Democracy in an Age of Sharp Power
Episode 125: Daniel Schulman on the Jewish Titans
The Forgotten Dispute that Could Ignite a War in South America
Tara Isabella Burton on the Myth of Self-Creation
Amanda Knox on the Harms of Public Shaming
China's Data War Against the U.S.
Episode 124: John Coates on the New Concentration of Financial Power
December 4: The Closing of the Russian Mind
Economies of Scale, Part I: Artificial Intelligence
November 30: Live Taping of Bookstack with Richard Aldous (for Members)
The Crisis in Medicine: A Provocation
Bethany Allen on How China Abuses its Economic Might
Argentinians Pick Their Poison
U.S. Support for Pro-Terrorist Groups: What Can Be Done?
A Bureaucrat by Any Other Name
Episode 123: Laurence Jurdem on TR and Henry Cabot Lodge
The Lights Are On But There Is No One Home
My Journey Out of Internalized Homophobia
Episode 122: Thomas Graham on Seeing Russia Clearly
Where Have All The Democrats Gone?
Anshel Pfeffer on Israel and the War in the Middle East
When “Liberty” Means Censorship
Gaza and the De-Colonization Narrative
Episode 121: Uri Kaufman on the Yom Kippur War
Free Speech Defenders Must Be Consistent
The Cocktail That Won the Great War
The Radicalization of the American Mind
David Brooks on Knowing Others (and Ourselves)
November 16: Russian Scholars in Exile
Why I Just Quit Democratic Socialists of America
The MAGAfication of the GOP is Complete
November 14: Wrongfully Detained: Alsu Kurmasheva and the Kremlin's Targeting of U.S. Journalists
Ukraine’s Resilient Religious Communities
The Case for University Silence
Israel-Hamas: Russia's Opening?
Episode 120: Katherine Turk on NOW’s Lesser-Known Feminists
Jonathan Rauch on Why Many People Are Unhappy in Middle Age (and How Life Gets Better After Fifty)
Trying to Make Sense of the Carnage
Israel’s War on Hamas: What to Know
A Quick Primer on Understanding 21st-Century Israel
Episode 119: Alexandra Hudson on Civility
The Deep Roots of the Left’s Deafening Silence on Hamas
Terror and Tragedy in the Middle East
This Was Never Supposed to Happen
Episode 118: Joseph Horowitz on the Art-Freedom Nexus
Ten Years That Shook the World
Vetocracy and the Decline of American Global Power
Three Targets for Welfare Reform
Angus Deaton on America’s Deaths of Despair
Episode 117: Yascha Mounk on the False Promise of Identity Ideology
The Insidious Lie That We Can’t Understand Each Other
Yascha Mounk on The Identity Trap
The Eerie Normality of Life in Kyiv
A New Cohort of Transgender Kids
Episode 116: Michael S. Roth on Loving Learning
October 5: Russian Political Opposition in Exile
The Friends and Foes of Democracy in Israel
Two Cheers for the French Revolution
Have You Read the Identity Trap? Then Start Here.
BRICS and Stones Can’t Break Western Bones
Bring Back Countervailing Power
Ask Me Anything with Francis Fukuyama
The Right's Anti-Corporate Turn
Rory Stewart on How Not to Be a Politician
Donald Trump’s Politics of the Berserk
Stop Denmark's New Blasphemy Ban
A Case for Optimism in Latin America
Episode 115: Timothy Garton Ash on What It Means to Be European
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt on the Tyranny of the Minority
September 19: I Lift My Lamp - Is the Golden Door Still Open?
Raymond Chandler: An American Classic
September 18: Russia's New Exiles: A Conversation on the Situation Facing Russian Exiles Today
Rediscovering Our Shared American Values
J.S. Mill vs the Post-Liberals
Obsessing Over Elite College Admissions Is the Opposite of Progressive
Why So Many Elites Feel Like Losers
Greg Lukianoff on How to Build a Culture of Free Speech
Hope for Guatemala, Redemption for the United States
The Supreme Court Case That Exemplifies Our Culture War Blindness
Sohrab Ahmari on Post-Liberalism
Keep Politics Out of Academic Hiring
Don't Give Up on the Dream of a Liberal Israel
Is Democracy More Resilient Than We Think?
The Madisonian Case Against Trump
How To Overhaul Higher Education
Democracy and the AI Revolution
What Are the Threats to Democracy Today?
Susan Neiman on Why Left ≠ Woke
Humans Suck at Seeing Into the Future
Episode 114: Tara Isabella Burton on Self Creation across the Ages
How Western Europe’s Far-Right Moderated
Europe Takes a Page from the Populists
Colin Woodard on America’s Many Nations
The United Nations vs Free Speech
Episode 113: Yasmine El Rashidi on Egypt’s Fortunes
Ukraine Into NATO? Hold Your Breath
Obsessing Over Elite College Admissions Is the Opposite of Progressive
Humane Liberalism Begins with Autonomy
Episode 112: Hugh Howey on the Silo Series
Culture, Tyranny, and Universal Values
Liberté, Disparité, Fraternité
Taking Exception: Poland's Anti-EU Stance
A Republic, If You Can Keep It
Lessons From Early Advocates of Academic Freedom
Michael Walzer on Liberalism and its Critics
Cultural Freedom in Mitteleuropa
Episode 111: Daniel Gordis on Israel at 75
Europe’s Move Towards Post-Populism
Polarization and U.S. Foreign Policy
The Case For Effective Altruism
Tim Mak on the Ukrainian Counteroffensive
Burn Down the Admissions System
Episode 110: Ronnie Janoff-Bulman on the Moral Divide in U.S. Politics
Would Poland Fight with Russia and Dance with China?
Putin Is More Dangerous than Ever
Michael Lind Makes the Case for Economic Populism
Beijing's Global Media Offensive
The Case Against Banning TikTok
Episode 109: Andrew Hoehn and Thom Shanker on a New Age of Danger
Dispelling Illusions over Taiwan
June 29: America's Public Forum on Social Trust, National Cohesion, and American Resilience
Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder on Fighting Illiberalism, Right and Left
Guilty Until Proven Innocent in Ireland
Being 'That Dad' at Baseball Games
Jack Smith Changed My Mind On Prosecuting Trump
Episode 108: Brett Forrest on the Unusual Disappearance of an American FBI Source
Countering Our Political Coarseness
Much Of America’s Political Divide Is An Illusion
June 22: How Japan Wrestles with Refugees, Immigration, and Identity ft. Saburo Takizawa
Tomiwa Owolade on What We Get Wrong About Race
America’s Fiscal Frontier, Part III: The Monetary Soul of Empire
Ukraine's Most Important Battle this Summer
Bring Back Music's Gatekeepers
America’s Fiscal Frontier, Part II: The Peace Dividend
Three Composers Born in June, Plus a Coda
Episode 107: Christopher de Bellaigue on Making Flight Carbon-Friendly
Jason Furman on the Future of the World Economy
America’s Fiscal Frontier, Part I: The Foundations of Our Budgetary Dysfunction
Billy the Kid and Aaron Copland
J.S. Mill vs the Post-Liberals
Episode 106: Frank Costigliola on George Kennan
The Two Faces of J. Edgar Hoover
June 8: Taming the Russian Beast ft. Amb. Michael McFaul (Leaders' Circle)
Why Democratic Candidates Should Challenge Biden
Frontline Fighting and Flourishing
The Fault Lines of George Kennan
Putting a Price on Human Rights
Episode 105: Kim Sherwood on Her Double O Novel
Collective Guilt is the Most Indefensible Form of Cancel Culture
In Turkey, the Stakes Are Just Too High
May 24: Author Elliot Ackerman on His New Novel "Halcyon"
May 18: Hungary’s Long Slide toward Authoritarianism ft. Zsuzsanna Szelenyi (Leaders' Circle)
Episode 104: Blythe Roberson on Embracing the Open Road
خواندن خطرناک [Reading Dangerously]
Why AI Will Never Rival Human Creativity
William Deresiewicz on the “Excellent Sheep” of the American Elite
The Free Speech Case for Section 230
Democrats Must Renew Their Allegiance to the Working Class
Episode 103: Charles Dunst on Defeating the Dictators
Focus on the Research, Not the Researcher
Ed Luce on an America—and a World—Divided
Episode 102: Dana Sachs on Our Saviors at Sea
The Russian Choreographer Fascinated by America
Not Your Grandmother’s Disinformation
Prisoners of the Opioid Crisis
When Conservatives Used to be Liberals
Valuing the Deep State: A Nine-Part Series by Francis Fukuyama
Timothy Garton Ash on Europe, Past and Present
Why We Created Harvard’s Academic Freedom Council
Exiles, Expression, Suppression
Episode 101: Ian Buruma on Three Legendary Fakes
The Autocrat Sliding into Your DMs
Gravedigger of Israeli Democracy?
25 Years for Criticizing the Kremlin
Ben Ansell on Why Politics Fail
Prepare for Iran's Nuclear Breakout
The Left, TikTok, and the World’s Biggest Police State
Yushchenko’s Advice for Zelenskyy
May 18: Old & New American Songs: Fusion, Inclusion, and Social Progress
Episode 100: Robert D. Kaplan on Inescapable Tragedy
Valuing the Deep State IX: Lessons from the Covid Crisis
Murtaza Hussain on How Immigrant and Minority Voters are Misunderstood
What's Missing From the Cultural Narrative About Gen Z
April 25: Author Greta Lynn Uehling on "Everyday War" in East Ukraine
Episode 99: Meredith Bagby on A New Kind of Astronaut
Natasha Crampton on Building Responsible AI
How to Be Left Without Being Woke
Matthew Goodwin on Why the Last Decade of Politics Has Been So Bizarre
The Next Stage of Trumpism is Here
April 17: Do "Left" and "Right" Tell the Whole Story? Ft. Verlan and Hyrum Lewis
To Boost Democracy Abroad, Biden Needs a Real Strategy
Episode 98: Derek Leebaert on FDR’s Circle of Four
Why We Need a Serious Debate About Healthcare For Transgender Youth
Martin Wolf on the Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
The Empire That Catherine Erased
The Wrong Way to Take Down Donald Trump
Can Baseball Survive the Computer Age?
The New York Times Is Finally Moving on From 2020
Episode 97: Adam Kirsch on Imagining Earth without Humans
March 29: Why the Museum Matters ft. Daniel Weiss and Dorothy Kosinski
Jonathan Greenblatt on Anti-Semitism
Why Has the West Given Up on Aid?
March 27: France, Russia, and Ukraine, ft. French Deputé Benjamin Haddad (Leaders' Circle Event)
Propaganda (Almost) Never Works
The Legal Barriers to Ukraine-Russia Peace
Episode 96: Van Jackson on America’s Paradoxical Role in Asia
The Left Case Against the "Restraint" Policy on Ukraine
Frans de Waal on Chimpanzee—and Human—Politics
The Illusion of a Frictionless Existence
The Ukraine War Has Transformed Europe—for Good
Why Middleware Is the Only Solution to Platform Power
Why So Many Elites Feel Like Losers
Matthias Matthijs on the Future of Europe
On the Frontlines of Ukraine's Cultural War
Anna Lembke on Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Episode 95: James E. Cronin on the Reinvention of the Liberal Democratic Order
March 8: Race, Religion & Rebels: Why James Baldwin Still Matters
The Case For (Even More) Compromise
March 8: Women and Art in a Time of War
Safeguarding Ukraine’s Civil Society
Valuing the Deep State Part VIII: The Private Right of Action
Vincent Lloyd on What Happens When “Antiracism” Goes Wrong
Russia’s War in Ukraine: Putin’s Soviet Delusion
Russia’s War in Ukraine: Views from the Region
Episode 94: Shana Kushner Gadarian on Politics and the Pandemic
Rachel Kleinfeld on Why America Isn’t About to Have a Civil War
Europe's New Conventional Wisdom (We Hope)
The Futility of Trigger Warnings
Valuing the Deep State Part VII: Out-of-Control Bureaucracies
Episode 93: Frank Dikötter on China’s Uneven Rise
Rediscovering Our Shared American Values
Ro Khanna on the Progressive Case for Patriotism and Capitalism
Dark Times for Academic Freedom in the Sunshine State
The Teen Mental Illness Epidemic Began Around 2012
Japan and the Russian Specter of War
Episode 92: Tom Dunkel on the Germans Sabotaging the Third Reich
The Case For Digital Minimalism
Richard Haass on Where America Went Wrong
When the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World
Why I Worry About Israeli Democracy
Black History, Black Classical Music
The Iranian Struggle for Freedom: A Call for Global Solidarity
How the Disinformation Gets Made
February 9: The Demands of the Iranian People ft. Amb. Samir Sumaida'ie & Roya Hakakian
What the Culture Wars Get Wrong
Episode 91: Dan Akst on the WWII Pacifists Who Revolutionized Resistance
Where Political Science Can Help Us Deal with Climate Change
February 8: "Women at War" Conversation with Dorothy Kosinski and Monika Fabijanska
Matt Bennett on The Democrats’ Image Problem
What Christopher Hitchens Knew
February 6: Election Reform in America ft. Katherine Gehl & Amb. James Glassman
February 2: Vera Mironova on the Russia-Iran Axis (Leaders' Circle Event)
The Sources of Chinese Conduct
January 25: "Women at War" Conversation with Artist Alevtina Kakhidze
Episode 90: John Lahr on How Arthur Miller Captured American Life
Episode 90: John Lahr on How Arthur Miller Captured American Life
Episode 90: John Lahr on How Arthur Miller Captured American Life
Charles Kenny on the Material Progress of the Developing World
The Green Technology That Dare Not Speak Its Name
January 25: Author Beverly Gage on "G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century"
How to Think about Climate Policy
Episode 89: William Inboden on How Reagan Kept the Cold War Cold
Episode 89: William Inboden on How Reagan Kept the Cold War Cold
Episode 89: William Inboden on How Reagan Kept the Cold War Cold
How Evangelicals Learned to Stop Worrying...
Brandon Terry on King's philosophy
Bart Somers on Sustaining Diverse Cities in Tough Circumstances
How to Prosecute a Former President
Searching for Iran's Secular Heritage
Don't Ban Depictions of Muhammad From the Classroom
January 12 – March 21: “Women at War," an exhibition of works by leading women artists in Ukraine
Tabata Amaral on Brazil’s Future