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A Misremembered Day of Infamy

6 Jan 2021 · 10 min read

US Navy battleships at Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 (wikicommons)

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Power Beyond Realpolitik

Scott Atran 28 Feb 2026 · 8 min read

Statue of Thucydides centered between American and Chinese soldiers, with their national flags behind them against a muted textured background.

I Used to Beat Up Sex Offenders. Now I Question the Mob.

Ben Gunn 27 Feb 2026 · 7 min read

Protestors hold banners reading “Workers Over Billionaires” and “EPSTEIN” in flames.

An Hour of Reckoning

Brian Stewart 27 Feb 2026 · 7 min read

USS Abraham Lincoln, a large grey aircraft carrier, on blue water.

Podcast #326: Catching a Serial Killer

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Maureen Callahan us a bright blonde white woman with red lipstick.

After Trump’s Iran Decision

Allen Zeesman 26 Feb 2026 · 7 min read

Cracked concrete wall painted with the Iranian and American flags, split down the centre to suggest geopolitical division.

Islamism: Shooting the Messenger

John Aziz 26 Feb 2026 · 8 min read

Anjem Choudary, a bearded religious Muslim man in glasses and cap at protest, with black flag bearing Arabic script and sign reading “America at War with Islam.”