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“There is nothing new about the sudden enthusiasm for aggressive government intervention during a health crisis. Throughout history, pandemics have led to an expansion of the power of the state.”

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Quite a lot has been written, including by me, about the effect of social media on politics, and in particular the way in which…

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After Trump became president, it was really too late to investigate his dodgy investments in Azerbaijan or his links to Russian money laundering. Those…

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If Reagan and John Paul II were linked by anything, it was a grand, ambitious, and generous idea of Western political civilization, one in…

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Until the attack on Pearl Harbor, isolationism was an important, even dominant strand in U.S. politics. After the Second World War, this strand disappeared,…

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The U.S.S.R. was a totalitarian state in which judges and prosecutors were controlled by the ruling party. The result was injustice, oppression and corruption.

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One knows, of course, that Donald Trump behaves differently from the leaders of other countries, especially the leaders of other Western democracies.

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As a nation, we are not good at long-term planning, and no wonder: Our political system insists that every president be allowed to appoint…

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Amazingly, quite a few people, even some American conservatives, are taken in by Russian tactics.

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Like wealth, or health, political freedom may simply be something that people don't value if they've always had it.

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Unlike most European countries, the police in the US are decentralized; even the FBI has regional offices. Amending the constitution is a long and…

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The hard truth is that Trump was not exceptional. He was just another amoral Western businessman, one of many whom the ex-KGB elite have…

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Politics in Slovakia had long been a battle between egotistical men. Caputova sought to be the anti-ego alternative.

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