Treacherous Men
A fabulous new history of the Cambridge Five by Antonia Senior provides the definitive account of Britain’s most famous traitors.
Ronald Radosh
· 12 min read
Cold War
A collection of 8 posts
Why We Still Love the Bomb
Stanley Kubrick’s comic masterpiece ‘Dr Strangelove’ remains a potent allegory for our times.
William Barker
· 9 min read
The Cold War’s Morbid Sage: Theodor W. Adorno and the Philosophy of 'Post-Existence'
Adorno was smuggling a work of social analysis full of difficult philosophical references into his readers’ reach by disguising it as literature.
Philipp Felsch
· 10 min read
Welcome to Cold War II
Challenging China across the technological landscape requires a mammoth effort.
Ari David Blaff
· 7 min read
Revisiting Kirkpatrick
Constructive relationships with dictatorships will be key to protecting US interests without direct military involvements.
Niranjan Shankar
· 16 min read
Reports of Liberalism's Death—A Reply to Yoram Hazony
Our pre-liberal past was far worse than our imperfect present, and attempts to build a utopian post-liberal future have invariably ended in regression to barbarism.
Cathy Young
· 11 min read
Do We Really Want a New Cold War?
Politicians and the commentariat keep shouting “China is not our friend!” But friendship is a good thing, the most rewarding of all human relationships.
James Hankins
· 6 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 min read