Features

Our Fractured Supreme Court
The benefit of unanimity and the vanity of dissent
Michael Schwartz

The Optimistic Thought Experiment
In the long run, there are no good bets against globalization
Peter Thiel

Resurgent Russia? A Still-Faltering Military
Reports of its return have been greatly exaggerated
Zoltan Barany

Resurgent Russia? Rethinking Energy Inc.
Five myths about the “energy superpower”
Andreas Goldthau

The Advantage to Islam Of Mosque-State Separation
What the American Founders can teach
Alexander Benard

Books

Mothers Alone
Amy L. Wax on The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades before Roe v. Wade by Ann Fessler and Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood without Marriage and Creating the New American Family by Rosanna Hertz
Amy Wax

Exceptionally American
Peter Berkowitz on God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World by Walter Russell Mead
Peter Berkowitz

The Indispensable Talleyrand
Henrik Bering on Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand by David Lawday and Talleyrand: Betrayer and Saviour of France by Robin Harris
Henrik Bering