“War Is the Least Conservative Undertaking”—An Interview with Dr William Ruger It is time for conservatism to fully embrace a prudential, restrained approach to foreign policy. Sumantra Maitra 31 Jul 2019 · 7 min read
Timely Return to Battle for a Veteran of the Culture Wars While Hanson is good in setting out the causes of Trump’s victory, he falls short when it comes to making recommendations for the future. Sumantra Maitra 22 Apr 2019 · 7 min read
'If I Want to Hold Seminars on the Topic of Empire, I Will Do So Privately': An Interview with Nigel Biggar Somewhat similarly, at Oxford, professor Nigel Biggar was targeted immediately after his project “Ethics and Empire” was launched. Sumantra Maitra 7 Jun 2018 · 5 min read
Balancing Threat in the Middle East What are the sources of Iranian and Saudi foreign policy and what prudent options there are for the West to adopt? Sumantra Maitra 18 Dec 2017 · 6 min read
Intersectionality and Popper's Paradox At the height of the Cold War, Western Marxists foresaw that the opportunity for an armed socialist revolution was bleak. Sumantra Maitra 6 Nov 2017 · 6 min read
Nationalism, Liberalism and the European Paradox There would be calls for interventions, the topic would be urgently raised at the Security Council —and there might even be talks of sanctions or the arming of moderate rebels. Sumantra Maitra 8 Oct 2017 · 5 min read
The German Election—A Conservative Analysis Germany is a country which takes politics seriously. Chancellor Angela Merkel is an academic herself. Sumantra Maitra 28 Sep 2017 · 6 min read
The Brains Trust of Intersectionality These might be two separate and superficially different incidents, but they are qualitatively very similar and underline the same cultural tensions that lead to these scenarios. Sumantra Maitra 15 Sep 2017 · 5 min read
America’s Real Pivot Trump’s speech highlighted these key aspirations, and struck the right notes, for his intended audience—the socially conservative. Sumantra Maitra 8 Jul 2017 · 6 min read
Is America Heading for a Civil War? The escalating political rhetoric on both sides has led Pat Buchanan to ask openly what some on the American Right have been pondering privately for a while. Sumantra Maitra 29 Jun 2017 · 6 min read
A Summer Night, London, 2017 Understand the character of an insurgency. An insurgency is a movement. Insurgency need not be coordinated or centrally planned. Sumantra Maitra 4 Jun 2017 · 6 min read
“The EU is Essentially a German Empire”: Peter Hitchens on Geopolitics and the Future of Europe The European Union is essentially therefore a modern avatar of the empire, based on Richard von Kühlmann’s imperial concept of “limited sovereignty.” Sumantra Maitra 19 May 2017 · 9 min read
Review—Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India by Shashi Tharoor All the European powers combined didn’t manage to kill that many people throughout all Asia during their entire colonial histories. Sumantra Maitra 14 Apr 2017 · 11 min read
Methods Behind the Campus Madness Then institutions of higher learning will again be a place for what they were originally meant, the exchange of ideas and verifiable knowledge. Sumantra Maitra 7 Mar 2017 · 7 min read
The Hypocrisy of Sweden's Feminist Foreign Policy Sweden was the first state to acknowledge Palestine, antagonising what is the only democratic power in Middle East and steadfast Western ally, Israel. Sumantra Maitra 19 Feb 2017 · 6 min read
