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HistoryJuly 12, 2021
The Movement President
Did Ronald Reagan help launch a movement—or did a set of movements help launch him?
Thomas Meaney
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Political IdeologiesNovember 18, 2015
Michael Walzer, Revolutionologist
The political theorist’s new book on national liberation can’t answer one key question: Why have those words become obsolete?
Thomas Meaney
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Language ArtsMarch 4, 2015
The Great Chastening
For Francis Fukuyama and John Dunn, our democratic crisis is the result of an intellectual failure.
Thomas Meaney
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Language ArtsSeptember 3, 2014
Jokowi’s Way
Can Indonesia’s charismatic new president solve the slow-burning crises of the world’s third-largest democracy?
Thomas Meaney and Saskia Schäfer
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Cultural Criticism and AnalysisMay 13, 2014
What Was Democracy?
Democracy was once a comforting fiction. Has it become an uninhabitable one?
Thomas Meaney and Yascha Mounk
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Foreign PolicyNovember 19, 2013
Power Down
The humanitarian impulse has not vanished from US foreign policy. It has simply split into two camps.
Thomas Meaney
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BiographyAugust 27, 2013
The Colonist of Good Will: On Albert Camus
Algerian Chronicles shows that Camus still has something to say to us—not about terrorism but economic justice.
Thomas Meaney
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July 2, 2013
Letters
No good deed goes unpunished; smashing the glass ceiling; the dollar rules the world
Our Readers and Thomas Meaney
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HistoryMay 15, 2013
Empire States: On Pankaj Mishra
Why a passionate history of global alternatives to liberal capitalism becomes an exercise in nostalgia.
Thomas Meaney
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December 31, 2012