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Batu Kutelia on Georgia

Eastern Europe Recognises the Power of NATO

Rutger Bregman on How to Live a Moral Life

Why It’s So Hard To Find Small Press Books

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Episode 163: Matthew C. Klein on Why Trade Wars are Class Wars

Kevin Mitchell on Free Will

The Blogger Who Hates America

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Claire Lehmann on The Psychology Behind Wokeness

The Next 1,360 Days

100 Days of Ressentiment

Bill Maher's Complicated Dinner

Ukraine Holds More Cards Than You Think

A Victory for Boring White Guy Centrism

An Open Letter to America’s Law Firms

Don’t Call it a Vibe Shift—Yet

Sarah Longwell on What Voters Really Think

My ChatGPT Teacher

Keeping at It

Is Trump Selling Out Ukraine?

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Europe Really Is Jailing People for Online Speech

Discourse on Race Has a Conformity Problem

Ivan Krastev on American Decline

A Good Man in a Strongman’s World

RFK Was Right: Severe Autism Can Be Devastating

Don’t Squander the Potential of Abundance

Your Data in DOGE’s Hands

10 Observations About Kyrgyzstan

Episode 162: Jonathan Rauch on Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy

Larry Summers on Harvard’s Showdown With Trump

The Material Basis of Changing Gender Relations

The Only Consistent Thread of Trumpism

The Third Humbling of Humanity

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Make Congress Great Again

Refusing To Lift a Finger for Justice

Coleman Hughes on the Legacy of Slavery

The Voice of America Falls Silent

A Brief History of Culture As Soft Power

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Emily Oster on What’s Gone Wrong with Modern Parenting

How Universities Can Save Themselves

Take Trump Literally

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An Abundance Reading List

A Free Speech Fight in Maine

Where Are the Red Lines?

John McWhorter on Pronouns

Authoritarianism Without Ideology

Into the Multi(polar)verse

Eulogy for a Republic

Teach Pluralism, Not Antiracism

Episode 161: Nicole Karlis Explores Your Brain on Altruism

Jason Furman on “Liberation Day”

These Tariffs Are a Democratic Crisis, Not Just an Economic One

The College Essay Is Everything That’s Wrong With America

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Turkey’s Resistance Takes to the Streets

There’s Nothing Righteous About Vandalizing Teslas

Reform for Results, Not Chaos

Yascha Answers Your Questions #2

Don’t Assume Trump Is Joking About a Third Term

Trump is Emboldening Strongmen in Hungary and Slovakia

The Average College Student Is Illiterate

They Really Just Might Invade Greenland

Audrey Tang on “Misinformation”

What Peace?

Aaron Sibarium on Identity Politics under Joe Biden and Donald Trump

Anatomy of a Massacre

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Netanyahu's Wars of Dismantlement

Unleash the Sheep State

For JD Vance, Europe Really Is the Enemy

Defending Democracy in America

How to Save the Climate Despite Everything

Episode 160: Nir Arielli on 10,000 Years of Dead Sea History

Hamish McKenzie on How Substack is Transforming Public Discourse

The Great Demolition

We Are Uncomfortably Close to 1933

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The World Happiness Report Is a Sham

Why the Civil Service Matters

The "Everyone Is Biased" Bias

Jacob Mchangama on Free Speech

Bluff Justice

Britain Chose Stagnation. There’s Another Way

The Joy of Forgotten Books

Free Speech Hypocrites

Francis Fukuyama on Donald Trump at Home and Abroad

Our Hamiltonian Moment

Can Europe Act as Leader of the Free World?

The WASPs Are Gone

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Jonathan Rauch on the Politicization of Christianity

How to Navigate Transgender Issues in the Trump Era

What Musk Doesn’t Understand About the Civil Service

Canada Is Spooked

Anyone Who Knows What's About to Happen Is Lying

Trump Is Privatizing America

As Trump Vandalizes the Transatlantic Alliance, Norway Feels the Heat

Episode 159: Wolfgang Münchau on Germany Going Kaput

How to Have Difficult Conversations

Modern Life Is Ruining Storytelling

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Making the World Safe for Criminals

Sins of the Father

The U.S. Capitulation to Putin

Yascha Answers Your Questions #1

The Five Dogmas of DEI

Machiavelli Would Hate Trump

How DeepSeek Rewrote the Rules of AI

Spencer Case on Defending Patriotism

The United States is Appeasing Evil

What Erratic Government Does to a Country

The Never-Ending American Eye Exam Racket

The Execution of Humphrey’s Executor

Lessons in Freedom From the Puritans

Psychedelics Go Mainstream, Kind Of

A Civil Service In Crisis

The Last Stand of Germany’s Establishment

Episode 158: Tevi Troy on the Epic Clashes between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry

Jake Sullivan on National Security

The DOGE Attack on Democracy Promotion

Europe's Coming Fall

The Ultimate Betrayal

Larry Diamond on the Spreading Crisis of Democracy

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Vance’s Many Hypocrisies

10 Observations About Tokyo

Wolfgang Münchau on Germany in Decline

Europe Has a Free Speech Problem

The Folly of Firing

The Crisis of Democracy Is Here

Trump Is Actually Warren Harding

Don't Say "Chaotic" or "Transactional"

Marc Dunkelman on Why Nothing Works

What I Saw At Kennedy Karaoke

Humpty Dumpty Had a Great Fall

Therapists Are Still Behaving Like Activists

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The Five Steps Towards Autocracy

A New Threat to the Freedom of the Press

Arlie Hochschild on Trump Voters, Old and New

The New American Imperialism

The Case For Drinking

Trump’s Wrecking Ball Comes for Foreign Aid

Episode 157: Katherine C. Epstein on How Theft of 20th Century Tech Built the National Security State

Oren Cass on the Case for Tariffs

DEI Must Change

Trump’s Anarchic European Agenda

The Zero-Sum Presidency

There's No Substitute For Public Opinion

Don't Just Let Radicals Dictate Your Opinions

Schedule F Is Here

The Damage Trump Is Doing

Eric Kaufmann on “The Third Awokening”

The Case Against Drinking

Iran’s Strategy for Trump 2.0: Stay Afloat

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America's Churches Are Radicalizing Themselves

15 Observations About Artificial Intelligence

Lukashenko Is Proud to be a Dictator

Appropriating Jesus... Again

Francis Fukuyama on Trump 2.0

The Deep and Dangerous Roots of Trump’s Foreign Policy

Yanis Varoufakis on What Comes After Capitalism

Putting the Worst Green Ideas in the Dustbin of History

The state of democracy in the United States after the 2024 election

Larry Diamond on the state of democracy in the "year of elections"

The Tangled Legacy of JFK and the Cultural Cold War

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The World’s Aged Major Leaders are a Menace

Episode 156: Lindsay Chervinsky on John Adams' Republic-Forging Precedents

There’s Got to Be More to This Ceasefire Deal

The Birth of Aspirational Populism

How Not to Resist Donald Trump

What Are Children For?

What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Second Trump Administration

We Need Policy Implementers, Not Policy Makers

Spare A Thought For Your Broke Professor

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Proportional Representation Is Not the Answer to America’s Problems

Serbia is Playing Both Sides

Farewell to a Mediocre President

The Democrats Trying to Win Back Rural America

Elon Musk and the Decline of Western Civilization

Our Heterodox Moment

Fraser Nelson on Great Britain

Praising Pozzo

Don’t Mourn the Fact-Checkers

13 Observations About France

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Tyler Cowen on Everything

Can Trump bring peace to Ukraine?

The Future of Warfare is Remote Controlled

Trud'oh!

How Art Lost Its Way

Yes, Elon, the Alternative for Germany Really Is Far-Right

It’s Time For a New European Alliance