An Interrupted Genocide
The widespread reluctance to describe the atrocities of 7 October correctly is an impediment to peace.
Jeffrey Herf
· 11 min read
Foreign Affairs
A collection of 154 posts
The War Against Truth
It has long been a cliché that China is inscrutable to foreigners, but it is also becoming inscrutable to itself.
Aaron Sarin
· 9 min read
The Quincy Institute’s Middle East Fantasies
The positions adopted by the think tank’s scholars during the war in Gaza are illustrative of its overall Middle East agenda: appease Iran and demonise Israel.
Leon Hadar
· 15 min read
Vapid Antiwar-ism
Since 7 October, Nicholas Kristof has produced a torrent of outraged testimony that betrays a refusal to grapple with the world as it is.
Brian Stewart
· 9 min read
Britain’s Golden Slumber
The British establishment’s China policy resembles a man periodically waking only to fall asleep again.
Aaron Sarin
· 11 min read
The Politicisation of International Justice
A dissection of the ICC’s warrant application reveals that obvious liberties have been taken with the truth.
Norman J.W. Goda
· 11 min read
The Limits of ‘The Israel Lobby’
Mearsheimer and Walt still don’t understand American support for Israel.
Matt Johnson
· 25 min read
The Great Divide
As CCP corruption and waste has run rampant, the gulf between rich and poor has widened.
Aaron Sarin
· 9 min read
Cuba’s Imprisoned Truth
An interview with the father of Cuban political prisoner Walnier Luis Aguilar Rivera.
Justo Antonio Triana
· 11 min read
Return of the Fortune Tellers
Wary of the Abrahamic faiths and increasingly contemptuous of Karl Marx’s alternative, young Chinese are drawn instead to tarot, divination, healers, and mediums.
Aaron Sarin
· 8 min read
Alexei Navalny 1976–2024
The life and death of a complex and courageous dissident.
John Lloyd
· 14 min read
Spies, Honeytraps, and Dissident Hunters
The Chinese Communist Party lives, breathes, and hallucinates espionage.
Aaron Sarin
· 11 min read
Close Down UNRWA
Western nations must not continue to contribute to a UN agency that is effectively controlled by a terrorist organization.
Richard Goldberg
· 12 min read
A Sanctuary No More
The strange afterlife of the Hong Kong democracy movement.
Aaron Sarin
· 11 min read
South African Lawfare at The Hague
Motions before any court—criminal or civil, national or international—contain references to hard evidence and a careful reading of legal precedent. The South African ICJ application has neither.
Norman J.W. Goda
· 13 min read