A collection of 441 posts
The hyper-sexualized nature of many gay subcultures threatens to undo the important human-rights progress we’ve made over the course of my lifetime.
An impressive new biography of Jessica Mitford emphasises her sceptical and anti-authoritarian personality. But this was only half of the picture.
What we can learn from the moral and literary failings of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and James Baldwin.
The homogenisation of culture begins with the loss of language.
In the 28th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes the deadly conflicts that emerged in the late 1630s between the Wendat and Haudenosaunee confederacies.
Israelis repeatedly warned the Bush administration that invading Iraq would be a disaster.
In a new biography of Stalin, William Nester does his best to locate a human being within the monster, but those efforts eventually run aground.
Decades of free riding has meant that many Middle East countries lack the skills and institutions necessary to maintain and build upon the favourable circumstances in which they now find themselves.
An appreciation of Richard Herzinger (1957–2025).
Lessons from 7 October and the 2023–25 war.
How the 6 Gallery reading in San Francisco on 7 October 1955 changed the counterculture.
Jon Lee Anderson’s powerful new book on Afghanistan reminds us that the justness of a cause is no guarantee of its success.
...but it will need to be reimagined in the post-Trump era.
Israel now stands accused of genocide for refusing to accept its own annihilation.
The postwar decline of the West was not sabotage, it was conviction slowly unwound in the face of horror.