Back to where we left off the other day: democracy’s varied discontents staring us straight in our blurred and reddening eyes, obscuring once-familiar loyalties and understandings. Modern democracy as a bloodier and bloodier power struggle; our self-chosen political class’s refusal…
While the democratic countries all realize that they must do something to counter the expansion of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), there is little consensus on the best way to achieve it. In order to protect the democratic countries from…
As COVID-19 and its associated lockdowns have kept Americans anxious and occupied, events in Hong Kong have been proceeding at a breakneck pace. Despite renewed demonstrations and protests, the city is on the cusp of becoming a special administrative region…
In an age of secularism, accepted opinion is that politics must be kept free of religion. As the argument goes, this is because religion teaches that there are supreme truths, and that those truths must always triumph over mere human…
A solution to the deplorable situation in Washington may be found by recourse to a misunderstood national treasure: democracy. It is by now obvious even to tennis writers that something is rotten in our nation’s capital. Headlines evoke a “constitutional…
Entering the 15th consecutive week of protests in Hong Kong, peaceful protesters are also pleading for the United States Congress to pass the “Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act,” which would annually re-evaluate Hong Kong’s autonomy and its special…
The largest mass anti-government protests in Hong Kong’s history have now entered their third month, with demonstrators occupying and effectively paralyzing Hong Kong airport, the eighth busiest in the world, on Monday. Hundreds of flights — nearly the entire outbound…
It has been a perilous few weeks for the Chinese Communist Party. The government faces wavering economic indicators compounded by the redoubling of its trade war with the United States, and mounting condemnation of the treatment of its Muslim Uighur…
There is a teaching in the Talmud that, when the Angel of Death is set loose on a broad-based mission, it does not distinguish between good and evil people. The Mueller Investigation’s latest scalp, that of Roger Stone, reminds me…
