Tod Lindberg

Oct 28, 2024 | cnas.org | Richard Fontaine |Shanthi Kalathil |Tod Lindberg |Tom Malinowski

The United States has led the free world for eight decades, helping to usher in an era of unprecedented human flourishing. For much of that period, democracies expanded in number and quality.

Sep 13, 2024 | commentary.org | Tod Lindberg |Matthew Continetti |Noah Rothman |Joseph Epstein

Alexandre Lefebvre’s Liberalism as a Way of Life belongs to the school of Anglo-American political philosophy whose defining figure was Harvard’s John Rawls, author of A Theory of Justice and Political Liberalism. The Rawls school views the pursuit of justice as the cornerstone of a liberal society.

May 14, 2024 | commentary.org | Tod Lindberg

W eWin, They Lose is an attempt to offer a fusionist vision of Ronald Reagan's and Donald Trump's approach to foreign policy as a model for the next GOP administration. As such, this volume by Matthew Kroenig and Dan Negrea is a sociological novelty. It isn't much more.

Dec 12, 2023 | commentary.org | Tod Lindberg |Brian Stewart |Michael Rosen

Samuel Moyn was born in 1972, which was, in its way, perfect timing. There can be no doubting his youthful precocity; his writing bears traces of it to this day. But even a precocious child of the 1970s and ’80s couldn’t have had much in the way of direct contact with the social and political upheaval that gripped the United States and the West in the 1960s and 1970s—to say nothing of the real-time controversies and choices in the aftermath of the Second World War.

Nov 10, 2023 | commentary.org | Tod Lindberg |Corban Teague |Matthew Continetti

Aconsistent point of contention in the debate over American foreign policy has to do with the respective roles of American interests and American values. On the center-left in the United States, it’s common practice simply to assert that American interests and values are, if not one and the same, at least in substantial accord. This is also a view significantly held on the center-right.