The Crisis of Perestroika

The Kremlin is now bringing to the rest of the world the kind of propaganda and conspiracy theories it has been churning out at home.

The changes that civil societies in Central and Eastern Europe have experienced since communism’s fall are real, but often misunderstood.

This is a central problem—perhaps the central problem—for classical liberal theory and its crucial distinction between the state of nature and the civil state. Which is better for liberty: nature…