Cycles of Change

Eighty years ago, the United States attempted to teach the world a lasting lesson about power. In the autumn of 1945, amidst the ruined brick piles of southern Germany, an American Supreme Court Justice named Robert Jackson took the podium inside a stone courtroom at Nuremberg. Allied armies had [...]

A morning routine in a coastal fishing town moves with predictable quiet. In Gurzang, eight miles outside the southern Iranian city of Minab, a literature teacher named Yaghoub Yazdanpanah kissed his six-year-old daughter Fatemeh goodbye on the last Saturday of February. Fatemeh loved reciting [...]

Every few years, a poll reveals that a growing share of the American public views socialism favorably. Political commentators usually treat this number as confirmation of their existing beliefs, leading to predictable reactions. Observers on the right warn about revolutionary confiscation, while [...]

The recent political confrontation concerning rising homelessness in Los Angeles clearly illustrates a systemic failure that jurisdictional arguments cannot resolve. Mayor Karen Bass and Councilmember Nithya Raman continue to publicly debate a fractional increase in the local unhoused population, [...]

When a government decides it knows better than the market how to run the economy, it begins deciding who gets what, who works where, how much bread costs, and how much land a family may keep. This often begins with the stated intention of ending poverty and inequality forever. For most of the [...]