How embarrassing for you. Putin invaded and seized Crimea on his watch — after Obama failed to enforce his own redline in Syria. And Obama still refused to give Ukraine lethal aid. Pathetic weakness

At this point I'm convinced a heavily-armed foreign army of a million men could cross the border and march on our nation's capital and libertarians would tell you that you couldn't try to stop them until they started actively firing on people.

Three standout realities of the last five years. 1) Dystopian-level totalitarianism descended on most of the world, complete with enforced and universal solitary home confinement, extreme censorship, and the crushing of commercial and religious freedom, ending in the force

"Let the lie come into the world. Let it even triumph. But not through me. The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world...Line dividing good & evil cuts through the heart of every human being.* - Solzhenitsyn

"political elites in the U.S. and Europe don’t honestly believe in limits. They may not want all 7 billion people to move to their countries, but deep down, they reject the idea that citizens of self-governing nations have the right to keep others out." europeanconservative.com/articles/inter…

"Machiavelli discusses what made Rome strong...it was not the harmony of the Roman Republic, but the disharmony; conflicts between the nobles and the plebs. What makes you strong is having a strong enemy to oppose, rather than somebody who agrees with you" johnathanbi.com/p/3b9ad40c-692…

Alex Priou Conversations about Strauss can be terribly dull. An easy way to spoil a good dinner party. If anyone really wants to have the Strauss conversation, my point of departure is here: yoramhazony.org/wp-content/upl…

The absolute Christ-like suffering of Ross Douthat politely interviewing a demon instead of cursing it because it's the best way to expose it. Heroic virtue.

Institutionally, Europe has fallen between two stools. It has lost the vigor and creativity that a continent of decentralized, genuinely sovereign states displayed, yet without acquiring the unity and force of a government with a single leader. One sees only a sort of feeble

Do magazines even need to exist anymore? A tweet gets more reach than an essay, faster, with less effort.  Yes, they do. Forget magazines in the abstract, make it concrete. Here are ten pieces we published at TAC that show the value of medium. These could not have been tweets.

Who is signing up to give Ukraine a security guarantee in which the guarantee means that the participant will go to war with Russia in Ukraine should fighting break out there after a peace deal is concluded to stop the current conflict? Who?

2021. The depth of Tyler Cowen's analysis knows no bounds.

Very pleased to share that my coauthor Dima Kortukov and I have a new article out with an apparently vital reminder: yes, the United States is a democracy. Enjoy!

Fun fact: Larry Arnn has done more to create a free and healthy politic where Christianity can flourish than literally every so-called Christian nationalist.

Here’s my National Interest story on Ron Paul, still a clarion voice in foreign policy at 90: nationalinterest.org/feature/a-livi…

How are judicial nominations going? “While Trump has basically kept pace on nominations, he will soon run out of seats to fill. Indeed, half the circuit seats available to Trump came from Democratic missteps exploited by Senate Republicans.” 1/

NPR segment today on Trump & museums. Long interview w/Nikole Hannah-Jones of 1619 Project. Zero NPR explanation of reasons for Trump stance. No questions abt historical falsehoods in 1619 Project. You don’t have to agree w Trump, but NPR misinforms listeners. As usual.

Goethe says aspiring writers should only read one Shakespeare play per year, because otherwise they might get discouraged, as Shakespeare "has already exhausted the whole of human nature ... and that, in fact, there remains for him, the aftercomer, nothing more to do."

That’s nearly a fifth of the American population—and that’s just the ones with visas.

Returning the Smithsonian to actual history (and science, etc.) is a much better use of government time than 99% of what the government does.