Nation

Brzezinski’s Battles

The year 1950 was perilous for what then, unabashedly, called itself the Free World. In January Britain’s Labour government extended diplomatic recognition to Mao Zedong’s Communist China. The same month…

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More Is Less?

REVIEW: ‘Abundance’ by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson Abundance is having a moment. Microsoft is investing in nuclear energy. Gavin Newsom axed environmental review for new housing in California city…

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REVIEW: ‘Eddington’

True satire is, by its very nature, emotionally unsatisfying, because the theme of satire is that there are no solutions to the low and fallen condition of human nature. Satire…

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