Heir Jordan
Aaron Magid has written a timely biography of a consequential monarch.
Michael M. Rosen
· 8 min read
Foreign Affairs
A collection of 166 posts
Saudi Arabia’s Counter-Reformation
The Takfiris are back in business.
Aurele Tobelem
· 11 min read
Progressive Moral Reasoning and Iran’s Revolt
Progressive discourse has become highly adept at identifying oppression, exclusion, and harm. But it is far less capable of understanding the basic conditions of political order.
Roohola Ramezani
· 10 min read
The Fall of Zhang Youxia
A septuagenarian loyalist may be facing execution for the crimes of caution and professionalism.
Aaron Sarin
· 8 min read
The Supreme Leader’s Reckoning
The brutality the security forces are unleashing in Iran is not an improvisation. It is doctrine.
Roya Hakakian
· 6 min read
Risky, Costly, and Extremely Cold
Any invasion of Greenland would be a logistical nightmare with no economic upside.
Sean Welsh
· 9 min read
Stranded in History
China’s over-reaction to a measured remark about Taiwan made by the Japanese prime minister is an attempt to move the Overton Window.
Aaron Sarin
· 8 min read
Iran’s Forward-Operating Base in the West
With the survival of Nicolas Maduro’s regime now uncertain, Iran and Hezbollah have much to lose in Caracas.
Emanuele Ottolenghi
· 7 min read
Sudan Between Two Middle Easts
Between the jihad of the “Hamas of Africa” and the new order of the Abraham Accords, the choice in Sudan should be clear.
Chama Mechtaly
· 21 min read
Broken China
The Chinese economy is a picture of mismanagement, wasted opportunities, and decline.
Milton Ezrati
· 5 min read
The Humanitarian Mask
How activists at Médecins Sans Frontières shape Gaza disinformation.
Gerald M. Steinberg, E. Levenson
· 9 min read
Ignorance and Indignation
Obama veterans never understood the Middle East, and they never will.
Brian Stewart
· 16 min read
The Middle East Powder Keg
Fragile ceasefires are holding for now, but the volatile region may be headed for another explosion next year.
Benny Morris
· 14 min read
Despite Israel, Not Because of It
Israelis repeatedly warned the Bush administration that invading Iraq would be a disaster.
David Brog
· 10 min read
Tara Freesoul and the Future of China
After decades of brainwashing, China continues to produce dissidents who absorb the same information as their classmates but reject it.
Aaron Sarin
· 7 min read