Category Archives: The American Conservative

Britain Can Always Get Worse

Keir Starmer is dire, but his possible replacements offer no improvement.

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Public Speaking

No one who knows me well would say that I am short on words, unable to keep up my end of a conversation, or reluctant to speak up in a group, but I sometimes wonder where I developed such verbal dexterity. Early in my educational career, I never hesitated to raise my hand in class […]

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Rubio Reaffirms ‘Western Civilization’ in Munich Speech

State of the Union: The secretary of state’s address emphasized America and Europe’s shared interests.

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Don’t Trade Away America for Some Soybeans

The cliché holds that China plans in decades while America plans in election cycles. Increasingly, though, our thinking seems to stop even sooner—around the length of a crop cycle. Not as an agricultural policy, but as a governing instinct. Soybeans are a solid proxy for how the United States deals with China: small, transactional, immediately […]

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Britain’s ‘Turkish Barber’ Phenomenon

Most visitors to Britain will probably head straight for Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London, or Shakespeare’s Stratford. But should you wander off the tourist trail, you’ll soon notice a curious abundance of Turkish barbershops. It might seem strange enough that these hairdressers are literally everywhere. Stranger still is that there’s rarely anyone in any […]

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Lessons for Venezuela From Two Afghanistan Wars

The dysfunctions of Soviet and American interventions in Central Asia could be replicated closer to home.

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 Inflation Cools in January

State of the Union: Declining energy prices led to better than expected performance.

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Netanyahu Plays Spoiler on Iran (Again)

TAC staffers discuss the week’s events

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