Democracy

Mr. Vance’s Hungarian Shame

Viktor Orbán has been ousted from power in Hungary, yet the question remains: why did Vice President Vance campaign so aggressively for a leader so transparently aligned with Russia and at odds with American interests?

Why We Must Fight the Demise of the Essay

Without the widespread ability to cogently express important ideas, none of the most important leaders of the last few hundred years would ever have been so influential

Violence Is Not Vision: The Left’s Myth of Redemptive Sacrifice

At first, revolutionary ideologies excuse violence as a sad necessity, before ultimately sacralizing revolutionary violence as an end unto itself

JD Vance’s Munich Speech and the Transatlantic Democracy Divide

Vance’s February Munich speech revealed a deep divide between the American and European conceptions of democracy and individual rights

Timeless Whiggish Principles of Liberty

May we all strive to be a “sincere Lover of Liberty.”

July 4: “Liberty as Independence”

“The Founders way of thinking about liberty is much more alert to dangers to liberty in civil society.”

Will the World’s Largest Muslim-Majority Country Slide into Authoritarianism?

Will Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority democracy, resist creeping authoritarianism or slide back under military rule as old power networks reemerge?

The Whig Case for Toryism

American conservatives can learn from our Tory forerunners the importance of reverence and order, realism and romance, and ultimately the poetry that is the soul of our civilization

The Technological Republic

What caused the recent sharp rightward shift of so many Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs? In their new book, Alex Karp and Nicholas Zaminska explain the new philosophies that inform the “tech right”

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