Ignorance and Indignation
Obama veterans never understood the Middle East, and they never will.
A collection of 608 posts
Obama veterans never understood the Middle East, and they never will.
The British establishment is experiencing a schism over China policy and approval of a controversial new embassy.
At this year’s Global Free Speech Summit, there was a widespread sense that the US is at a perilous juncture.
Rusty Reno and the American postliberal revolt against the postwar consensus.
An impressive new biography of Jessica Mitford emphasises her sceptical and anti-authoritarian personality. But this was only half of the picture.
The world is not waiting for our utopian visions to make sense of it and order it. Liberal democracy works when it assumes as much.
We need to cultivate an appreciation for the abundance that modernity has bestowed instead of taking it for granted.
Fragile ceasefires are holding for now, but the volatile region may be headed for another explosion next year.
The obvious benefits of open debate and free dissent are too often confused with destructive contrarianism.
History and the constraints of American federalism suggest the euphoria and catastrophism that have followed Zohran Mamdani’s election victory are misplaced.
A month after the lethal Manchester synagogue attack, the UK still refuses to take its number one terror threat seriously.
Shadi Hamid has an uneasy conscience, and he doesn’t yet know what to do with it.
Israelis repeatedly warned the Bush administration that invading Iraq would be a disaster.
After decades of brainwashing, China continues to produce dissidents who absorb the same information as their classmates but reject it.
Doha can change when it is forced to, and it must be forced to choose moderation.