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Feb 14, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Justin Kempf |Francis Fukuyama |R. Jay Magill |Michael Kimmage
Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experimentby Allen C. Guelzo (Penguin Random House, 272 pp., $30)In 1948, historian Richard Hofstadter published The American Political Tradition, which contains a famous essay on Abraham Lincoln. Hofstadter regarded Lincoln with a skepticism that bordered on contempt. Lincoln, he argued, had been a myth maker. Lincoln had invented himself as a self-made man and cultivated that image while trafficking in the political ugliness of his times.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Justin Kempf |Francis Fukuyama |R. Jay Magill |Jeffrey Gedmin
Since the death of twenty-two-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini on September 16, 2022, three days after she fell into a coma and died in police custody, Iran’s regime keeps ramping up its efforts to maintain order and rein in its people. Last October, Ramtin Fatehi joined pro-democracy demonstrations in Germany. He wanted to be the voice of his father, uncle, and aunt who had all gone missing for ten days in Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s northwestern Kurdistan province.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Justin Kempf |Francis Fukuyama |R. Jay Magill
At his recent meeting with Denys Shmyhal, his Ukrainian counterpart, Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico sounded as if his country were among Ukraine’s most vocal supporters. Slovakia wants “Ukraine to be sovereign, independent, prosperous, and democratic,” Fico stressed. “That is why I backed Ukraine’s European path without any hesitation at the European Council meeting.”In a radio interview just seventy-two hours earlier, however, Fico’s tone was markedly different.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Justin Kempf |Francis Fukuyama |R. Jay Magill |Richard Aldous
You've successfully subscribed to American Purpose Great! Next, complete checkout for full access to American Purpose Welcome back! You've successfully signed in. Success! Your account is fully activated, you now have access to all content. The remarkable shift in the economic ideas at the heart of the Democratic Party—from the embrace of neoliberalism in the ’90s to the left-wing populism that Joe Biden accommodates today—traces its origins to the 2008 financial crisis.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Justin Kempf |Francis Fukuyama |R. Jay Magill |Carolyn Stewart
It’s easy to think of Korean fried chicken as just another fast food. After all, chains like BonChon and Pelicana Chicken can be found the world over. But this double-fried dish wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for the Korean War and the seventy-year-strong Korean-American alliance. And for Korean Americans in the United States, the dish is an important point of connection and identity. “It’s more than just a twist on an American South comfort food,” Alexander Ahn tells me.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Justin Kempf |Francis Fukuyama |R. Jay Magill |Jeffrey Gedmin
The British and French entered the Black Sea in January 1854. The land war was full on by then. Britain, France, and the Ottoman Empire were fighting to check Russia’s expansion into Europe. The Crimean War lasted from October 1853 to February 1856. Florence Nightingale went to the region in October 1854. She took thirty-eight women volunteers to care for wounded British soldiers arriving at a base hospital in Constantinople.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Justin Kempf |Francis Fukuyama |R. Jay Magill |Jeffrey Gedmin
The British and French entered the Black Sea in January 1854. The land war was full on by then. Britain, France, and the Ottoman Empire were fighting to check Russia’s expansion into Europe. The Crimean War lasted from October 1853 to February 1856. Florence Nightingale went to the region in October 1854. She took thirty-eight women volunteers to care for wounded British soldiers arriving at a base hospital in Constantinople.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Justin Kempf |Francis Fukuyama |R. Jay Magill
Please join American Purpose on Monday, March 4, 2024 at 10:00 a.m. EST for a Zoom conversation with Natan Sharanksy and Pavel Butorin. Jeffrey Gedmin will moderate. Natan Sharansky became a household name during the Cold War. A prominent Soviet dissident, he was sentenced to thirteen years of forced labor. Sharansky was famously released in 1986 in an international prisoner exchange after his succession of hunger strikes and an international campaign on his behalf.
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Jan 5, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Justin Kempf |Francis Fukuyama |R. Jay Magill
Many hundreds of thousands of Russians have fled their ever-more authoritarian country since the start of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, joining a global exile community that had already been growing for years. They include leaders of the political opposition, civil society and media who have long opposed the Kremlin, are natural allies against Russia’s war in Ukraine, and a key hope for reestablishing any future free and open Russian society.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
americanpurpose.com | Richard Aldous |Jay Weiser |Jeffrey Herf |R. Jay Magill
If one were to distill a few common denominators from the horrific events of recent years—school and mass shootings, cars smashing through protestors, the Ukraine war, Hamas' attacks on Israeli citizens—one of them would be that many of the related scenes we see in the media have originated from videos made on personal digital devices.
