A collection of 209 posts
Israel’s experience in Gaza provides a sobering preview of what high-intensity urban warfare can entail, and how modern militaries must evolve to achieve decisive and ethical victories in any future conflict.
Forced to choose between believing the claims of Israeli women and maintaining solidarity with Palestinians, Western academic feminists chose 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.
George R.R. Martin, the Strauss-Howe theory of history, and the failure of the Baby Boomers.
Civil-rights law made the DEI world; civil-rights reform can unmake it.
What Karl Popper’s classic can teach us about the threats facing democracies today.
A brief history of Bob Dylan on screen.
Iran and Russia have suffered serious setbacks over the past year, but grave dangers remain.
Since the 18th century, the very process of innovation was uniquely institutionalised in the West. That is now precisely what is being globalised.
Many people were surprised by the number of Latinos who voted for Trump, but opposition to mass migration does not just come from Anglo nativists.
A new version of Tinto Brass and Bob Guccione’s notorious 1979 film ‘Caligula’ provides a valuable record of one of the most fascinating disasters in cinema history.
Denial of “invisible” suffering is bad science and worse ethics.
Al Pacino’s personal life has been a bit of a train wreck, but his new memoir leaves no doubt that acting has been the most important thing in his life.
Andrew Dominik’s much-maligned film about the life and death of a screen icon claws through the sentimental myth-making in search of terrible truths.