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The Case Against Liberal Imperialism
Foreign policy should not be based on the opposition between democracy and autocracy.
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France, laïcité and why it's hard to understand another country
What the debate about France's ban on the Islamic veil and the abaya in public schools says about the difficulty of understanding another country.
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The Mirage of America's Special Sauce Theory
Geography, not any "special sauce", explains why the US has an easier time with immigration than Europe.
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Interracial violent crime in the US
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The Case Against Western Military Assistance to Ukraine
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The Mirage of America's Special Sauce Theory
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Finding Ukraine's 38th Parallel
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How Could the War in Ukraine End?
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Finding Ukraine's 38th Parallel
Ukraine's counteroffensive is now under way and will likely determine where the future line of contact will be when the conflict is eventually frozen…
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Of Course It's Biological
Every psychological difference is ultimately biological, but this fact is not as interesting as you may think.
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Interracial violent crime in the US
A misleading narrative about interracial violent crime in the US is being kept alive by intellectual obfuscation.
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The Fact That the Ukrainians Want to Keep Fighting Doesn't Mean That We Have a Moral Obligation to Help Them
People claim that, since the Ukrainians themselves want to keep fighting, we can’t invoke the cost for Ukraine of prolonging the war to deny them…
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The Case Against Western Military Assistance to Ukraine
Providing military assistance to Ukraine isn't in the West's interest and the arguments to the contrary are not convincing.
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How Could the War in Ukraine End?
The war in Ukraine started one year ago and shows no sign of abating. In this essay, I discuss how it could end, reviewing various possible scenarios…
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More on What is Likely to Happen in Ukraine Next
In my last essay, I argued that the war between Russia and Ukraine was likely to turn into a stalemate because the Ukrainians had already picked most of…
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