Via @edwest, the most neoliberal thing you’ll read all week. Excerpts: Until fairly recently, it was rare to find Americans who were passionate about both medieval history and contemporary politics.

Whoever doubts that a revival of the medieval era is at hand need only flick through the channels to find the incontrovertible evidence, confined no longer to psychic advice on the cable stations, but ...

A weekly deep dive into the current trends, slang, and viral videos of youth culture in terms that even the squarest can understand. I try to write about emerging trends in this column, but this week ...

Many of us have spent the last week glued to our televisions watching the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. A marauding and medieval religious cult, the Taliban are famous for banning education for women, ...

The world is in a confused and dangerous state. Russia, a nuclear power, invades Ukraine and threatens the Baltic states, all the while spouting casual nuclear threats. ISIS recruits by posting videos ...