Edward Luttwak wrote the book on regime change, and he sees parallels between China’s pandemic response and the Soviet Union’s late years.
The Weekend Interview
Targeted for censorship in March, Aaron Ginn is becoming an influential voice in cities, states and Washington.
Joel Peterson and Robin Hayes, JetBlue’s chairman and CEO, on how the pandemic has racked the business and how flying will be different once it’s over.
Michael Milken, the billionaire former financier, is boosting Covid treatments. No one knows which will work, but saving lives and the economy will require a mighty gamble.
Stanford scientist John Ioannidis finds himself under attack for questioning the prevailing wisdom about lockdowns.
Measures developed for the plagues of the 14th century are helping authorities fight the coronavirus now, says Yale historian Frank Snowden.
This youthful composer likes to speak ‘directly to the heart.’ Critics won’t like it, but audiences do.
Actor-director Clint Eastwood, 89, weighs in on Bloomberg, Trump, #MeToo and the dispute over a reporter’s depiction in his latest film.
Government policies limit millennials’ prosperity, Harvard economist Edward Glaeser argues. Will they realize more of the same isn’t the answer?
What’s next after Britain’s break from Europe? Historian Andrew Roberts is bearish on free-market policies but bullish on an alliance of English-speaking lands.
Iván Simonovis went from Caracas police chief to prisoner of Venezuela’s socialist regime—then over a 60-foot cliff to freedom.
Neither ‘rational choice’ nor behavioral economics explains the story of the Good Samaritan. Economist Richard Robb offers an alternative that tries.
The U.S. has an unmatched capacity for absorbing newcomers. Yet historian David M. Kennedy worries that the country no longer agrees on a shared identity or purpose.
The internet turned out not to be an unmixed blessing, but Antonio García Martínez, the author of ‘Chaos Monkeys,’ seeks to calm your fears about privacy and ‘fake news.’
Spain’s former leader, José María Aznar, reflects on secession movements at home and in Europe, and on the Trump era’s challenges to the postwar order.
Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kee and mainland artist Jingxiong Guo both endured arrest and now live in exile, but they disagree on the prospects for democratic reform.
‘I don’t see a decline,’ the 94-year-old critic John Simon says. ‘Looking back into the past always makes it look better than it actually was.’
Historian Tom Holland argues both sides of the culture wars share similar theological assumptions—including the dignity of women, which he traces to St. Paul.
Pastor Andrew Brunson on his ordeal behind bars, his meeting with Trump, and his hopes for a turn away from Islam.
The border fence is ‘a visible example of national paranoia,’ author Paul Theroux says. Yet he thinks Americans are right to be afraid.
