Artificially Inflating the Threat From Russia Does Nobody Any Good Their foreign policy record understandably looks chaotic at first glance, but we can nonetheless detect a pattern to it. Sumantra Maitra 12 Feb 2017 · 5 min read
Make Expertise Great Again The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters is finally out this year. Sumantra Maitra 9 Feb 2017 · 7 min read
The Berkeley Riots and the Tyranny of the Righteous Minority The entire narrative of the Western left is one of structural, systemic exploitation by the forces of patriarchy, economics, and social-conservatism. Sumantra Maitra 2 Feb 2017 · 6 min read
The New Trump-ian Order What I have outlined above are valid critiques of Trump’s policies which need to be vigorously pursued through constitutional channels and via Senatorial and Congressional opposition. Sumantra Maitra 22 Jan 2017 · 6 min read
Trump, NATO and the Persistent Myths of International Relations If one is serious about defending liberal order, then one should be prepared to spend. After all, freedom isn’t free, and Uncle Sucker won’t be there forever. Sumantra Maitra 17 Jan 2017 · 5 min read
The BuzzFeed Fiasco Shows Us Why Trust in Institutions Is Dying If this information about an American leader were true, it would be frankly unprecedented. At the same time, the information is also extremely suspect. Sumantra Maitra 11 Jan 2017 · 6 min read
How Will History Remember Obama? Mostly, however, it was just disappointment. In both race relations and foreign relations, Obama unleashed forces, either deliberately or carelessly, which were beyond his control. Sumantra Maitra 8 Jan 2017 · 6 min read
No, the Syrian Civil War is Not Like Jews fleeing Nazi Persecution If one genuinely cares about the civilians who are suffering, they would want to stop the war at any cost, rather than fan the flames further. Sumantra Maitra 23 Dec 2016 · 6 min read
Cut Out The "Literally Hitler" Hysteria Human societies, generally are conservative, and they prefer primarily two things, order and rule of law in society, and the perceived safety of one’s own tribe. Sumantra Maitra 14 Nov 2016 · 7 min read
The Restart of History and the Russia Question There should be no misunderstanding that Russia is an adversarial great power. Sumantra Maitra 10 Nov 2016 · 10 min read
Reappraising Samuel Huntington's 'Clash of Civilisations' The biggest threat to human civilisation is not from some random weirdos blowing themselves up. The biggest threat is neither solely cultural or economic, but a hybrid of the two. Sumantra Maitra 20 Oct 2016 · 7 min read
Merkel's Meaningless Mea Culpa Angela Merkel is apologizing. Not for her policies, but for a whole lot of other things. Sumantra Maitra 30 Sep 2016 · 6 min read
The Paradox of Democracy The entire idea of democracy is predicated on two essential assumptions, that humans will value knowledge, and humans will decide on the basis of rationality. Sumantra Maitra 10 Sep 2016 · 7 min read
