The New Speech Wars
At this year’s Global Free Speech Summit, there was a widespread sense that the US is at a perilous juncture.
Cathy Young
· 12 min read
Donald Trump
A collection of 93 posts
MAGA’s Weak Gods
Rusty Reno and the American postliberal revolt against the postwar consensus.
Matt Johnson
· 23 min read
Appetite for Destruction
Trump and the art of the demolition, from Bonwit Teller to the White House.
Julia Friedman
· 8 min read
An Uneasy Peace
Trump’s peace plan brings the hostages home and halts fighting in Gaza, but Hamas’s refusal to disarm and Israeli concerns about Palestinian statehood threaten the deal’s long-term survival.
Benny Morris
· 15 min read
Trump’s Gaza Plan
Donald Trump’s twenty-point peace proposal marks a potential turning point in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict—though whether it can be implemented remains uncertain.
Benny Morris
· 9 min read
Working for the Company
The modern CIA is everything its enemies and friends say it is—by turns heroic, villainous, duplicitous, servile, and frequently ineffective.
Ron Capshaw
· 9 min read
The Post-Kirk Clampdown
The current frenzy of right-wing cancel culture recalls the progressive lunacy that followed the murder of George Floyd. But the current iteration is more dangerous because it is backed by state power.
Patrick Frey
· 22 min read
Trump and the Necessity of Democratic Struggle
Liberal pluralism remains the best way to secure as much freedom as possible for a nation with 340 million diverse inhabitants, and this point should become clearer as clashing illiberal forces compete to impose their own versions of law and morality on everyone else.
Matt Johnson
· 15 min read
Science, Funding, and Economic Prosperity
A reply to Lawrence Krauss.
Zachary Robert Caverley
· 6 min read
Trump’s War on Science
The Trump administration is proposing to end support for some of the cutting-edge scientific research that is crucial to America's economic prosperity and military security.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 5 min read
Conflicting Visions of Peace
Netanyahu’s Nobel Prize gesture masks serious diplomatic divisions over Iran’s nuclear programme and the future of Gaza’s devastated population.
Benny Morris
· 8 min read
The Twelve Day War: Truths and Consequences
Operations Rising Lion and Midnight Hammer have been successful military operations, but a great deal of uncertainty remains.
Adam Garfinkle
· 22 min read
Creative Writing in the Age of Trump
The assumption that once drove creative writing—that interior life deserves as much respect and interest as the latest bump in relations at the White House—no longer obtains.
Daphne Merkin
· 8 min read
The Rise and Fall of Liberal Internationalism
The post-Cold War democratic wave has receded and the free world now appears to be learning from authoritarian regimes instead of the other way around.
Matt Johnson
· 23 min read
Who Are the Snowflakes Now?
The state should never be in the business of enforcing any particular ideology, but nor should it be in the business of suppressing it.
George Case
· 8 min read