SEVEN QUESTIONS

In SEVEN QUESTIONS, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Bret Stephens investigates the seven essential questions that determine whether a society will thrive or fail.

In this thoughtful examination, Stephens reveals how we currently risk getting every single question wrong—and how we might get back on track. But of course, the answers are not simple. Stephens delves into the nuances of a nation's attitude toward newcomers, independent thinking, failure, history, patriotism, and more.

In understanding the benefits and repercussions of certain stances, Stephens concludes that the previous formulas used by so many countries won't work anymore. SEVEN QUESTIONS offers a brilliant, eye-opening study of what will.

Bret Stephens is an Op-Ed columnist at The New York Times and a former foreign affairs columnist and deputy editorial page editor at The Wall Street Journal. He also previously served as the editor in chief of The Jerusalem Post, where he oversaw the paper's news, editorial and digital operations, international editions, and more. Stephens is the author of America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder, and he has received two honorary doctorates and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. He was raised in Mexico City and holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago and an MSc. from the London School of Economics. Stephens and his wife, Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, a music critic for The Times, live with their three children in New York and Hamburg, Germany.