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Fighting Fire with Fire

We know how to prevent catastrophic bushfires. For more than half a century, Western Australia has been reducing forest fuel loads through a systematic program of ‘prescribed burns.’

Brad Barr

16 Jan 2025 · 9 min read

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Justin Trudeau in a grey suit and striped tie, in front of Canadian flags. He a salt-and-pepper beard and curly brown hair.

Shame on Us for Ever Believing Him

Justin Trudeau convinced me he was a sunny patriot who’d unify Canada. What I got instead was a cynical culture warrior who smeared opponents as bigots and defamed my country as a genocide state.

Jonathan Kay

7 Jan 2025 · 8 min read

Ahmed Al-Shara is a bearded pale-skinned man. He is speaking into a telephone, wearing army fatigues.

Syria and the Changing Global Calculus

Iran and Russia have suffered serious setbacks over the past year, but grave dangers remain.

Joshua Muravchik

31 Dec 2024 · 19 min read

Timothee Chalamet is a white man in his 20s, at a microphone, wearing dark glasses, with curly brown ha

Printing the Legend

The naysayers are dead wrong about James Mangold’s remarkable new film about Bob Dylan and the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early 1960s.

Ronald Radosh

26 Dec 2024 · 15 min read

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Shakespeare Versus the Girlboss

Jodi Picoult’s latest novel is a ham-fisted expression of cultural rage, embodying the most anodyne values of corporate human-resources departments.

Marilyn Simon

16 Jan 2025 · 14 min read

Abu Mohammad al-Jolani is a Middle Eastern man in military fatigues.

Jihadist at a Crossroads

Syria’s new leader will have to balance his Islamist beliefs with the more pressing tasks of state-building and economic development.

Sean Welsh

16 Jan 2025 · 11 min read

6 pictures, 5 of professors, 1 of a crowd clapping.

Agitprop at the AHA

If the American Historical Association formally adopts a resolution accusing Israel of “scholasticide,” it could destroy the organisation’s reputation for serious scholarship.

Jeffrey Herf

15 Jan 2025 · 15 min read

Mazen is a sickly looking man who looks sadly into the camera.

Syrian Torture, Then and Now

The atrocities committed by the Assad regime were no secret—but they were met with Western inaction.

Susie Linfield

14 Jan 2025 · 7 min read

The memorial is a big black wall. Snow is on the ground.

Memorial Daze

Notions of injury or exclusion are often based on shifting cultural sensitivities and political pressures, rather than on any permanent, universal measure of good and evil.