Foreign rivals hypocritically echo Americans’ own fears about racism and Trumpism, but the real malaise is bipartisan.

On top of an intensifying cold war between the U.S. and China and other seismic changes, the rapid spread of Covid-19’s newest variant could finish off our most recent phase of global integration.

The U.S. labor market is caught between a pandemic that isn’t quite over and an inflation surge that’s gathering steam.

Institutions dedicated to the search for truth have ossified into havens for liberal intolerance and administrative overreach.

Glasgow translates as “dear green place.” At COP26, they’ll find that going green is dear indeed.

Roger Scruton Memorial Lecture

Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, October 18, 2021

(45-50 mins, 6,500 words)

I tried to warn Mark Zuckerberg that he risked becoming part Rockefeller, part Hearst. But the rest of us don’t have a good solution for what his platform has become.

The developer’s collapse isn’t leading to global contagion, but China’s looming economic disaster might.

Twenty years after the horrific attacks on New York and Washington, it’s clear that the biggest changes of our time were not ideological or geopolitical, but technological. They were also the hardest to foresee.