The European Union (EU) is about to face its biggest challenge to date. In May, people from across the EU will go to the ballot box to vote in the latest set of elections to the European Parliament. And the...
At the start of March 2019, John Bolton, national security adviser to the President of the United States, declared that Donald Trump’s administration was not afraid to use the term “Monroe Doctrine” with reference to Venezuela: “This is a country...
For good reason, European leaders and intellectuals worry that, absent the utmost vigilance, virulent nationalism could again be unleashed with the full force of its destructive potential. Europe, they believe, is essential to prevent such a terrible outcome. But is...
The founding-hero of Athens, Theseus, lends his name to a famous thought experiment. The ship on which he sailed to Crete to slay the Minotaur and thus put an end to the sacrifice, every seventh year, of the seven most...
When in November 2016 Donald Trump was elected President of the United States of America, there was celebration on the floor of the Russian State Duma. To Russians, Trump’s victory came unexpected, as it did to most people, including Trump...
In the year 70 CE, with the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Roman Empire, the limited autonomy of the Jewish people in the Land of Israel came to an end. At that time, the Jews of the...
The political philosophy of liberalism was invented to solve a specific problem. That problem was the challenge of pluralism, the difficulty of achieving peace in European societies that were increasingly riven by disagreement about core beliefs, especially religious beliefs. Liberalism’s...
