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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. George Case 14 Jan 2025 · 7 min read
The Tyranny of Fragility How Alexis de Tocqueville foretold the rise of victimhood culture. Samuel Veissière 13 Jan 2025 · 8 min read