A collection of 36 posts
Jonathan Kay speaks with Atlantic writer David Frum about Trump’s pro-Russian political cult. Also discussed: Israel, the fate of Gaza, Justin Trudeau, and the strange social panic surrounding Canada’s (as yet undiscovered) ‘unmarked graves.’
Peter Beinart has responded to the 7 October massacre and subsequent Gaza war with a deeply duplicitous book.
Syria’s new leader will have to balance his Islamist beliefs with the more pressing tasks of state-building and economic development.
The atrocities committed by the Assad regime were no secret—but they were met with Western inaction.
Iran and Russia have suffered serious setbacks over the past year, but grave dangers remain.
Syria’s crisis demonstrates the importance of power.
The conditions that first produced ISIS have been left to fester as part of a wider malign neglect toward the Muslim Middle East in the aftermath of the Iraq war.
The decapitation of Lebanese Hezbollah is a cause for celebration well beyond the borders of Israel.
American money and goodwill cannot fix a state when its own people refuse to make the sacrifices necessary to establish and defend effective, efficient, and responsible governance.
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.
A dissection of the ICC’s warrant application reveals that obvious liberties have been taken with the truth.
We should celebrate the death of the Butcher of Tehran, but Iran’s future remains fraught with uncertainty.
Pamela Paresky interviews the outspoken Israeli academic.
The Jewish state is facing security threats from groups based in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Yemen—all of them supported by Iran.
Republicans and Democrats have both learned the wrong lessons from Iraq.