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Michael Auslin

Michael Auslin, PhD, is the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Articles by Michael Auslin

Sunset at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC.
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America must find its middle ground

Regardless of who wins the presidential election November, America likely will see new outbursts of protest, revealing a pessimism and anger that threatens to become the norm in Am..

Michael AuslinApril 9, 2024
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Three victories and a defeat

There is a spectre haunting American foreign affairs: the spectre of the successive victories of the Second World War, the Cold War, and globalisation. A period of renewal is neede..

Michael AuslinAugust 15, 2023
Hector taking leave of Andromache.
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Can Epic Poetry Revive History?

‘Read history, poetry’, urged the historian David McCullough. When combined, as the ancients knew, history and poetry offer an incomparable insight into the human condition...

Michael AuslinApril 25, 2023