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Was the First Gulf War a mistake? The histor­ian Paul Schroeder thought the answer was "yes." In his arresting formulation, Operation Desert Storm was “a just, unnecessary...

The recent attack by an Afghan national on two National Guardsmen in Washington, D.C., was not an outlier. Since coming to the United States, Afghans have murdered, attempted to...

When Barack Obama first won the presidency in 2008, he ushered in a distinctive left-liberal aesthetic of personal power. Young, handsome, eloquent, and black, Obama was cool, and in...

Dawn’s Early Light:Taking Back Washington to Save Americaby kevin d. robertsbroadside, 304 pages, $32 When Kevin Roberts became president of the Heritage Foundation in 2021, he set out to...

Twentieth-century civilization has collapsed. It rested on an essential tenet of liberalism: the state-society, public-private distinction. The state-society distinction reached its apogee in the mid-twentieth century, when the triumph...

We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendts Lessons in Love and Disobedienceby lyndsey stonebridge hogarth, 368 pages, $32 One of the greatest beneficiaries of Donald Trump’s 2016 election...

Since the Veil Law of 1975, abortion has been legal in France. Yet for decades, the French could boast that through legislative deliberation, they avoided importing American culture wars...

Liberalism and Its Discontents by francis fukuyama farrar, straus and giroux, 192 pages, $26 To the general public, Francis Fukuyama’s name is synonymous with the “end of history” thesis,...

The most important dystopian novels of the first half of the twentieth century are Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s 1984. Huxley and Orwell captured the two sides...

Last week, the Canadian government invoked the Emergencies Act to break up the Freedom Convoy protests. Officials had accused the protesters—long-haul truckers and citizens gathered in Ottawa to peacefully...

A World After Liberalism: Philosophers of the Radical Rightby matthew roseyale, 208 pages, $28 In a series of short but incisive essays, Matthew Rose, a frequent contributor to First...

After Nationalism: Being American in an Age of Divisionby samuel goldmanuniversity of pennsylvania, 208 pages, $25 Those involved in the debates over American nationalism will find Samuel Goldman’s skeptical intervention,...

Éric Zemmour is the most important media personality in France today. He is also the most controversial. So, in February 2021, when he hinted on television that he was...

On April 21, twenty retired French generals published an open letter to President Emmanuel Macron and the French government. The letter, which appeared in Valeurs actuelles, calls for France’s...

History Has Begun:The Birth of a New Americaby bruno maçães oxford, 248 pages, $29.95 Is liberalism giving way to something new? The most notable contemporary case for postliberalism, Patrick...