This impunity plays out today in brutal displays of force that shock the conscience of most Americans. Several other essays ...

Doctors described ICE agents entering hospitals and clinics, lingering outside emergency departments, patients delaying or ...

In the days following Nicolás Maduro’s kidnapping last month, a curious debate took place in which some announced the definitive end of the postwar liberal international order, while others responded ...

In a perverse twist on virtue signaling, the Trump administration is training Americans in the politics of raw domination. Revisiting Not I, a memoir of growing up in Nazi Germany. An interview with ...

This essay appears in our next print issue. Subscribe to get a copy. On January 7 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Good, a thirty-seven-year-old ...

When Plato was an infant, bees alighted on his lips and, nestling there, set about making honey. His parents had placed him, sleeping, on the summit of a mountain while they paid tribute to the gods, ...

Political judgment takes place within political time. And political time is less a matter of chronology than of genre. What kind of moment are we living through? Is our system of government undergoing ...

More than a century before Zohran Mamdani declared he wanted a New York City network of grocery stores “focused on keeping prices low,” socialists in Spain were furious about a network of grocery ...

In their new book, Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue that American liberals have ironically succumbed to a conservative worldview, in the original sense of “conservative.” Instead of ...

In 2013 Charles Murray traveled to the Galápagos Islands to deliver an address to the Mont Pelerin Society—that font of neoliberalism, founded in 1947 by Friedrich Hayek. But Murray’s talk didn’t run ...

This essay is featured in our Winter 2025 issue, Trump’s Return. The lineup at Donald Trump’s second inaugural was a veritable billionaire’s row, with the heaviest hitters of Big Tech out in full ...

Events of the past decade have prompted frenzied discussion of the state of democracy across the globe. In countries across Europe, Latin America, and Asia—as well as, of course, in the United ...