FP Weekend

Perry Link’s essay collection finds meaning in silences.

What the 19th century teaches us about what happens next.

Astonishing death rates and brutal abuse have not kept troops from following orders.

A graphic novel plays out a nightmarish scenario of authoritarianism in the hopes of waking us up.

A small rock club is still raging against the dying of the city’s Cold War subculture.

The war in Ukraine is leading to a linguistic backlash in Russophone Central Asia as young people embrace their mother tongues.

An investigative journalist heads to Moscow to hear from the “merchant of death” himself.

Two head-spinning rides through a globalized world.

Centuries of colonialism have spawned magical thinking about race and assimilation.

Misjudging an adversary’s will to fight has been a major contributor to military failures since World War II.

Trump’s claims that the division is “artificial” echo bad ideas about the Middle East.

Fears about children’s depravity are a proxy for adult worries.

From an expression of intransigence to a symbol of triumph.

A new book from Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson could be a lost manifesto for a second Democratic administration.

Scholars are increasingly making the case for reviving modernization theory.