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February 12, 2020|China, Coronavirus

China’s Communist Party Struggles to Restore Credibility After Virus Outbreak

by David P. Goldman|

Commuters on mass transit in Shanghai, China, January 2020.
The coronavirus epidemic is a shock to China’s political system, but—unless the death toll spirals out of control—it is probably one China can absorb.

January 27, 2020|China, Harold Koh, Iraq, Syria, The Trump Administration and International Law, Travel Ban

President Trump and the Forever Wars

by Robert J. Delahunty|

Harold Koh calls for elite mobilization against the Trump Administration’s policies on armed conflict, immigration, trade, climate change, & human rights.

November 26, 2019|China, Daryl Morey, Michael Bloomberg, Social Justice, woke capitalism

Woke Capitalism Is a Sign of Things to Come

by Matthew Continetti|

Still from “Activate,” a six-part documentary series that appeared on the National Geographic Channel.
Corporate behavior evinces the dominant beliefs of society. In China, those beliefs are not pluralistic. And that is increasingly the case in the US.

October 11, 2019|China, Tim Cook, woke capital

Woke Capital Bows to China

by Titus Techera|

A general shot of the court during a preseason game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Brooklyn Nets as part of 2019 NBA Global Games China on October 10, 2019 at Mercedes Benz Arena in Shanghai, China. Copyright 2019 NBAE (Photo by Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images).
How dare free American citizens say something in favor of political freedom.

September 5, 2019|capitalism, China, Douglas Carswell, England, Progress v. Parasites, Rome, Stephen Davies, The Wealth Explosion

What Are the Engines of Progress?

by Helen Dale|

1876 lithograph (Everett Historical at shutterstock.com)
Helen Dale reviews two new books that investigate the explosion of economic growth and what constitutes it.

August 14, 2019|China, habeas corpus, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Protests

The Battle for Hong Kong

by Nikolai G. Wenzel|

Hong Kong, August 3, 2019: Residents of Hong Kong protest the proposed extradition law with China. (omonphotography, shutterstock.com)
Nikolai Wenzel gives a personal view on the protests in Hong Kong against the Chinese extradition bill.

August 7, 2019|China, Foreign Policy, free trade, illiberalism, tariffs, WTO

The Rise of Economic Illiberalism as Foreign Policy

by John O. McGinnis|

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND: The headquarters of the World Trade Organization (EQRoy, shutterstock.com).
The rise of economic restrictions as a tool of American foreign policy is propelled by factors that will continue long after the Trump administration.

July 16, 2019|China, Foreign Policy, George Magnus, Red Flags

Decline and Fall of China?

by A.E. Clark|

George Magnus has written an astute and nuanced assessment of the economic challenges facing the Chinese dictatorship.

June 27, 2019|China, extradition, Hong Kong, legitimacy, Xi Jinping

A Legitimacy Crisis for Hong Kong—and China

by John O. McGinnis|

Overhead view of massive protests against the Chinese mainland extradition policy in Hong Kong, June 16, 2019 (Lewis Tse Pui Lung / Shutterstock.com)
Concentrated power is more likely to lead to mistakes of the kind that have been made in Hong Kong, and such mistakes undermine the regime's legitimacy.

April 1, 2019|capitalism, China, free trade, Globalization, Industrial Policy, Nationalism, tariffs

The Economic Nationalism Agenda: A Conversation with Daniel McCarthy

by Daniel McCarthy|

Steelworker utilizing an electric furnace (shutterstock.com)
Daniel McCarthy makes the case for a new conservative agenda rooted in an aggressive industrial policy.
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Book Reviews

A Mirror of the 20th-Century Congress

by Joseph Postell

Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.

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The Graces of Flannery O'Connor

by Henry T. Edmondson III

O'Connor's correspondence is a goldmine of piercing insight and startling reflections on everything from literature to philosophy to raising peacocks.

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Liberty Classics

Rereading Politica in the Post-Liberal Moment

by Glenn A. Moots

Althusius offers a rich constitutionalism that empowers persons to thrive alongside one another in deliberate communities.

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James Fenimore Cooper and the American Experiment

by Melissa Matthes

In The American Democrat, James Fenimore Cooper defended democracy against both mob rule and majority tyranny.

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Podcasts

Stuck With Decadence

A discussion with Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat discusses with Richard Reinsch his new book The Decadent Society.

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Can the Postmodern Natural Law Remedy Our Failing Humanism?

A discussion with Graham McAleer

Graham McAleer discusses how postmodern natural law can help us think more coherently about human beings and our actions.

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Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

A discussion with Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell discusses his new book, The Age of Entitlement.

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America, Land of Deformed Institutions

A discussion with Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin pinpoints that American alienation and anger emerges from our weak political, social, and religious institutions.

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