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We communicate more today than at any time in history. Social media platforms, online fora, video chats, conference calls, and text messaging promise us unprecedented connection. And yet we’re...

America is all too content with its carnage. Especially the subtler kinds. Especially the carnage inside. A deep, hard-to-pinpoint angst saps and drains the morale of our children: It...

Ours is an ideological age. War, revolution, and terrorism are lit by ideas. Majorities regulate speech and enforce ways of thinking. Partisan politics drowns out civil society. Identity is...

Russia is turning inward. As the fabric of purpose and identity seems to fray among Western nations, the Russian people have set out to consolidate their culture and revive...

There’s a whale about to be dropped on the desert of Utah. Not a live animal, but a system, a mindset. Since Thomas Hobbes wrote his famous book in...