A collection of 123 posts
The Israeli attack on Iran is in line with its longstanding policy of never allowing its neighbouring enemies to acquire nuclear weapons. But it is also the latest episode in the wider war against Israel launched in late 2023 by Iran’s proxies.
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.
Douglas Murray’s new book looks at the dangers posed by the burgeoning coalition of radical leftists and Islamists in the wake of 7 October.
An insider’s naive and myopic account of China’s system and intentions.
New mining frontiers are opening up in Greenland, Brazil, Tanzania, and Australia. In no time at all, historically speaking, Beijing’s advantage will disappear. That is a relief, but it is also a concern.
Israeli intelligence and the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023.
Alexander Vindman’s bracing new book argues that Ukraine has been made to suffer the consequences of Western naivety and restraint.
When dealing with the Chinese Communist Party, why does the West find it so difficult to learn the exhausting lessons of bitter experience?
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.
Why does so much of the US Right hate a country valiantly resisting a war of aggression?
The strong will do what they can and the weak will suffer what they must.
Forced to choose between the values upheld by the National Endowment for Democracy and fealty to Donald Trump, Republicans have opted for the latter.
The Trump administration has liquidated the postwar international order.
Peter Beinart has responded to the 7 October massacre and subsequent Gaza war with a deeply duplicitous book.
Conflict is brewing between Hongkongers who have made the UK their home and a Communist Party that wants to make the UK its vassal.