An Orwellian China is sidling up to a Huxleyan America in what could become a catastrophic encounter between two different forms of insanity.

Singapore’s security has always depended on American military power. No surprise, then, that its denizens feel increasingly insecure.

Can whole societies go crazy? They can and have—but never before has a crazy society implicated pretty much the whole planet.

Depolarizing American politics depends on a better understanding of what inequality is, and how it relates to past and current ideological currents. First with COVID and now with the George Floyd events, we see that the time to act is growing short.

Business, money, food, and anxiety: all areas where there is similarity, if not identity, between diasporic Jews and Chinese.

If competence varies widely within the same type of regime, then regime type alone cannot possibly be determinative of outcomes.

Thanks to innovations in information technology, we are facing unprecedented concentrations of power—which are making society not only less transparent, but more brittle as well.

An appreciation of the national pastime—and the 2019 Washington Nationals.

Comparing diasporic Jewish and overseas Chinese history sheds light on Singapore’s diplomatic situation.

To see trouble coming from a greater distance, you need to step back and get perspective from history.