“Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God.”

Dalibor Rohac discusses his new book Unshackled: How Economic Growth Can Defeat the World’s Dictators.

The connections between the Indian subcontinent and East Asia, though neglected by strategists in the 19th and 20th centuries, are set to define geopolitics entering the mid-21st century

While gene-editing and all-seeing orbs belonged to the realm of fantasy in Tolkien’s own time, today these technologies have the capacity to fundamentally reshape societies and the global order of nations

Most of the world still looks to the United States for global leadership, particularly compared with China and Russia

Human rights, properly defined and pragmatically pursued, do not need to be a distraction from great power competition with China and Russia but can instead be a core part of the fight against our repressive adversaries

The Trump administration must finalize the agreement to fully transfer ownership of TikTok to an American company

The plight of imprisoned Hong Konger Jimmy Lai is a case study in the failure of the Vatican to stand up for freedom of conscience and other universal rights Christian humanism upholds

The end of a free Ukraine portends only the further weakening of America’s system of global alliances