The American Race
ASLE TOJE Daytona 500 is the highlight of the Nascar racing season. A glorification of bravery, speed and engine noise. Outside the stadium aspiring preachers stand ready with megaphones. The…
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A Game of Brexit
What the loss of a Chief of Staff means for the Brexit negotiations. The Brexit negotiation, whatever else it is, is a political drama of the score-settling type. So let’s…
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A Ruinous Obsession
How a nation that loved ruins was itself reduced to rubble—and in its own ashes discovered new, impossible ideals. A life in a discarded shoe box. A while back, as…
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Under Pressure
The refugee crisis may not break the EU, but it will upend the postwar European political order. Each age has its own fears. Much like the specter of climate change…
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The Man Who Disliked Saints
Hailed as a prophet and reviled as a racist, Jean Raspail novelized Europe’s immigration crisis—forty years before it happened. George Orwell, which is to say Eric Arthur Blair, said and…
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The End of the Fifth Republic?
When the terrorists once again struck France on November 13, the country has shown a different, more authoritarian side than in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo outrage. The strategy of terrorism,…