The Genocide Libel
A new report from the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies separates verifiable facts from politically motivated fiction in Gaza.
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A new report from the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies separates verifiable facts from politically motivated fiction in Gaza.
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.
In its quest to exploit Myanmar for diverse ends, the Chinese Communist Party keeps underestimating the state’s volatility.
If liberalism is to recover it must find a way to create the conditions for a better future.
The modern CIA is everything its enemies and friends say it is—by turns heroic, villainous, duplicitous, servile, and frequently ineffective.
The current frenzy of right-wing cancel culture recalls the progressive lunacy that followed the murder of George Floyd. But the current iteration is more dangerous because it is backed by state power.
Israel now stands accused of genocide for refusing to accept its own annihilation.
The self-esteem movements that once deranged America’s school curricula have since deranged the realm of identity activism.
Political discourse during our polarised moment can be vicious and exhausting, but it is still preferable to the alternative.
The postwar decline of the West was not sabotage, it was conviction slowly unwound in the face of horror.
China’s military parade was a distraction from the country’s weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
Why did this particular crime cut through the daily background noise of American violence?
The Gaza aid-site controversy and a crisis of journalism.
What realists like Emma Ashford deride as America’s “reactionary defence of the status quo” is in fact a prudent effort to preserve a world order of unparalleled value.