Christian Caryl
List of Christian Caryl articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Let’s Face It: The U.S. Constitution Needs a Makeover
The 2016 election shows that it’s time to start a national conversation about fundamental political reform.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 President Duterte’s Crazy Drug War Is Just the Beginning
The Philippines’ new strongman is eating away at the foundations of democracy. Can anyone stop him?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 We’ve Got to Face It: Trump Is Riding a Global Trend
If Hillary Clinton wants to win, she needs to confront the rise of fear-driven politics.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Mourning the Syria That Might Have Been
How Assad’s forces bombed a democratic experiment into oblivion.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Congratulations, President Putin! Everything Is Going According to Plan.
Why the Kremlin loves Donald Trump.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Memo to the Establishment: Inspire Us or Lose
The competent politicians holding Western democracy together are dropping like flies. It’s time for them to embrace the tactic of stirring emotions -- to positive ends.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Does Tunisia Produce So Many Terrorists?
The success story of the Arab Spring has made room for moderate secularists to flourish. But that’s a double-edged sword.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The End of Politics as We Know It
The traditional ideological divides of Left and Right are collapsing. And that raises big questions about the future of liberal democracy.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Europe’s Big Freedom Fail
It's time for the European Union to get serious about enforcing democratic standards.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Insurgency Is Fun
The status quo in the Western democracies is under attack — and its defenders are looking more listless by the hour.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Banning Muslims From the United States Is the World’s Dumbest Idea
Donald Trump’s proposal is politically, morally, and strategically wrong. It also doesn’t make any sense.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 That Little Problem With the Lord
People are claiming that Muslims, Christians, and Jews might have something in common. God forbid!
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Tale of Two Poisonings
One was a former spy, the other a liberal activist. Both ended up in the sights of Vladimir Putin's Kremlin.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Age of Disillusionment
Both the world’s liberal democracies and their authoritarian competitors are facing an uncertain year. Who will rise to the challenge?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 When You Close Your Eyes and Think of America, What Do You See?
Why nationalism can be a force for good. (But beware of the dark side.)
