May 2022

Weariness with, and wariness of, the Cold War was very real and ought to give us pause

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has scrambled Asia’s geopolitics

History can help presidents think about how to confront new challenges

Why is the Kennedy Center discriminating against a Catholic trumpet player?

In an effort to make everything inclusive, we are erasing women

Trans ideologues want to hide your child’s problems from you

Seeing the turannos as a deviant type of king, Aristotle tested the distinction under four headings

Luxury retail is as cheugy as any other kind

Literacy is overrated

Savage is no cookie-cutter lefty, for all his haranguing in favour of baroque sexual lifestyles

Amid all of life’s mundanity, who doesn’t want to be an athlete?

How conservatism’s anti-elitists defeated the establishment

Recent clampdowns in Russia and China show just how foolish the prevailing US mood is

Rather than preparing to live out the rest of this century in misery, I’m now giddily optimistic

Younger generations inherit a world in which the middle ranks are struggling almost everywhere