A Paradoxical War
The American debate about the campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
A collection of 86 posts
The American debate about the campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
An interview with Dr Shmuel Bar.
Israel faces not a solvable conflict but a permanent condition—one requiring deterrence, “violent maintenance,” and historic patience—while confronting both regional enemies and a cultural battle in the West.
The war with Iran is reshaping the entire Middle East from the Gulf States to Lebanon with surprising speed.
Operation Epic Fury is not just about Iran.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Iranian-Canadian human-rights activist Kaveh Shahrooz about whether Reza Pahlavi, the eldest son of the last Shah of Iran, might rise to power as a new Prince of Persia.
The Islamic Republic’s assault on the Gulf will forge the new Middle East.
Iran has never been weaker and America has never been more poorly led.
The real dilemma is not between war and negotiation. It is between episodic action and sustained architecture.
Aaron Magid has written a timely biography of a consequential monarch.
The Takfiris are back in business.
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.
The brutality the security forces are unleashing in Iran is not an improvisation. It is doctrine.
The Third-Worldist roots of the Islamic Republic.
An Iranian-born political analyst breaks down the origins of Iran’s latest protest movement, the regime’s brutal response, and what a political transition could look like.