A collection of 49 posts
The new European commitment to defence and Russia’s unshakeable wish to control Ukraine have revived an awareness that war is something with which comfortable and relatively wealthy states may still have to live.
Accusations of Trump Derangement Syndrome and Trump himself are both products of the social-media age.
The pope is not a source of ethical wisdom.
The apparent abandonment of Ukraine and Adam Boehler’s negotiations with Hamas have raised serious doubts about Donald Trump’s commitment to Israel.
The Trump/Musk administration’s approach to cutting costs makes good political sense in the short-run. But from a longer-run governing perspective, it is a recipe for disaster.
Forced to choose between the values upheld by the National Endowment for Democracy and fealty to Donald Trump, Republicans have opted for the latter.
Musk and Trump are inflicting catastrophic damage on biomedical research.
Jonathan Kay speaks with Atlantic writer David Frum about Trump’s pro-Russian political cult. Also discussed: Israel, the fate of Gaza, Justin Trudeau, and the strange social panic surrounding Canada’s (as yet undiscovered) ‘unmarked graves.’
The Trump administration has liquidated the postwar international order.
After three punishing years of war, the Trump administration is preparing to reduce a ravaged country to the status of US protectorate.
Donald Trump is often described as an imperialist and an expansionist and these terms are usually used interchangeably. Neither of these descriptions is meant to be flattering, but the larger problem is that they are imprecise.
America just switched sides in the Ukraine war.
Exceptionalism is a double-edged sword, which cuts those blind to America’s flaws and those blind to its virtues.
Civil-rights law made the DEI world; civil-rights reform can unmake it.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with The Line editor Jen Gerson about how US President Donald Trump’s tariff threats have affected Canada’s already fractured political landscape.