This modern obsession has created problems so obvious that only the intelligentsia could fail to see them. Somebody eventually had to say it — and German chancellor Angela Merkel deserves credit for ...

The enormity of Hamas’ 10/7 mass atrocities breaks the heart and scorches the mind. Or so a person of ordinary human decency would think. In a few hours and under the cover of thousands of rockets ...

CHICAGO — Chancellor Angela Merkel declared the death of German multiculturalism at a conference of her political party, the Christian Democratic Union, last weekend. She said the very idea that guest ...

A catchy title that asks a question can be a problem if it leads people to think that the author's inclination is to give a simple answer. Indeed, it seems a hopeless quest to try to answer the ...

His answer came in response to a question at an Iowa diner Tuesday from a woman who wanted to know how the former Florida governor would help refugees and immigrants integrate into U.S. society and ...

Yesterday, I stopped briefly in Philadelphia to deliver a short paper at the Philadelphia Society’s 43rd National Meeting. The general topic this year was “Challenges to Conservatism.” (I, too, have a ...

Diversity, pluralism, multiculturalism. We’re inundated in this election year by the continual thrumming that we should have even more (or, for others, less) such terms. And what we have already is ...

The home secretary landed herself in not just hot, but fiercely boiling water this week with a speech she delivered thousands of miles away, at a right-wing think tank in Washington. The choice of ...

In his nearly forgotten book Notes Towards the Definition of Culture, T.S. Eliot observed that “One people in isolation is not aware of having a ‘culture’ at all.” Until I was 12, I lived in western ...

On his final day in office, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticized multiculturalism in a tweet. “Woke-ism, multiculturalism, all the -isms—they’re not who America is,” he wrote. “They distort our ...

Multiculturalism is a tangled issue. It’s not surprising that some seek to cut the Gordian knot by declaring it a failure – or at least, less than a success – and call for a return to a more singular ...

There are many ways to understand the tendency roiling liberal-democratic politics in recent years, from the outcome of the Brexit vote and the presidency of Donald Trump to the surge in support for ...