Janan Ganesh is one of the world’s great newspaper columnists, and his column in Tuesday’s Financial Times is another stellar entry in a remarkable oeuvre. Casting about for a macro-level explanation to the tumults of our time — Trump, Brexit, and their ilk — he finds one in the apparent complacency that has overtaken Western society since the end of the Second World War. There is no Passchendaele, no D-Day, no Iwo Jima to give our politics an anchored, foundational meaning; over time we’ve become bored with the way things are and lost the discipline that did so much to create our current prosperity ...
Janan Ganesh is one of the world’s great newspaper columnists, and his column in Tuesday’s Financial Times is another stellar entry in a remarkable oeuvre. Casting about for a macro-level explanation to the tumults of our time — Trump, Brexit, and their ilk — he finds one in the apparent complacency that has overtaken...
On Monday, the House of Representatives passed, by an overwhelming margin, a bill to sanction Russia, in part for its interference in the 2016 election. On Thursday, the Senate approved a...
Over and over again, political pundits and journalists make constant reference to the Democrats’ “progressive base.” Without heavy progressive turnout, we are told, the House won’t flip in 2018...
Both Congress and our country are mired in an inexhaustible debate over whether to remove Planned Parenthood’s federal funding as a result of its provision of abortion. The question we ought to...
When children misbehave with toys, you take the toys away and put them in time out. After this week, health-care reform needs to be taken away from Republicans. Let them work through their...
Senator Chris Murphy (D. Conn.) needs his head examined. Jubilant at the defeat of the already diluted Republican health-care bill, he sent out the following tweet this morning:
Last night...
On Friday, it became official: The New Atheists are no longer welcome on the left. Battered, condemned, and disinvited, these godless and once-favored “public intellectuals” are now homeless,...
'A page-turner and a flat-out great book. This is the inside account of how we ended up with the Islamic State, with one revelation after another. If you read one book on ISIS, this is it.' - Robert Baer, author of See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism
