Democracy and Dr. Kissinger
Kissinger the scholar studied power. Kissinger the statesman acquired power, guarded it, and wielded it.
Dostoevsky’s Dangerous Gambit
by
Ryan Kemp
Posted on December 8, 2023
Image: “Alyosha and Vanya,” 1971, by Mikhail Rojter (1916–1993); The Gamborg Collection/Bridgeman Images; background: manuscript of The Brothers Karamazov.
Dostoevsky is too Christian for a secular age and too secular for Christendom.
Autocracy Rising
Posted on December 12, 2023
Image: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at a rally in Izmir in May 2023; Shutterstock..
Turkey presents an inversion of the usual presumptions about the current global struggle between liberalism and conservatism.
Self-Censorship and Don Quixote
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on December 14, 2023
Image: The Lion, illustration for Don Quixote, 1902, by William Strang, National Galleries of Scotland.
The language of self-censorship removes the question from the moral realm in which it properly belongs.
Presentation and Power
by
Mark Dunbar
Posted on December 20, 2023
Image: Signs at the site of an Occupy DC protest, 2011, Shutterstock.
The protests and protest candidates failed because they lacked organizational structures and concrete policies.
Taking the Long View
Posted on December 29, 2023
Image: THR illustration (Bonki Studio/Shutterstock).
The historical novel strives to recreate not only the material dimensions of a past age but also its mindset.