Antizionist City
A community that embraces a set of shared beliefs is not necessarily a bad thing, but the value of solidarity depends entirely on the merits of the cause in question.
Brian Stewart
· 7 min read
Politics
A collection of 735 posts
Power Without Principle
The Trump administration does not know how to use American power to expand American influence, and its officials do not care to learn.
Brian Stewart
· 6 min read
An Abject Policy Failure
An unorthodox survey suggests it’s time for the Australian government to concede defeat in the tobacco wars. Will it have the guts to do so?
Stephen Dawson
· 8 min read
Reasons to Leave China
The Chinese Communist Party cannot and will not accept that its time in the sun has passed. But the public knows.
Aaron Sarin
· 7 min read
Drink More Ovaltine
The jokes we told in a Venezuelan prison.
Joseph G. St. Clair
· 11 min read
What Is Canada For?
Might Canada’s fate foreshadow that of other advanced but dependent democracies, clinging to old ideals of cooperation and diplomacy as they’re rolled under the treads of China’s or America’s naked self-interest?
George Case
· 9 min read
J.K. Rowling vs. Amnesty
Is this the reckoning that human-rights NGOs have long avoided?
Danielle Haas
· 10 min read
Between Iraq and a Hard Place
Amid a regional scramble to shape the “day after,” Jordan appears to be the only country without a plan of its own.
Aurele Tobelem
· 9 min read
Is the Pro-Palestine Movement Israel’s Unlikely Ally?
By framing terrorism and armed struggle as legitimate resistance, the pro-Palestine movement has unwittingly strengthened Israel’s case that withdrawal and concessions carry unacceptable risks.
Royee Zvi Atadgy
· 6 min read
Blood, Progress, and Amnesia
There is real value in Noah Rothman's century-spanning chronicle of left-wing terror, but it falls short in analysis.
Jason Manning
· 9 min read
The Pacific's True Rogue State
Beijing just launched a nuclear-capable missile into the South Pacific Nuclear-Free Zone and called it routine. It was not.
Aaron Sarin
· 7 min read
Reshaping the Middle East
Reconsidering Israel’s wars in 1956, 1982, and 2026.
Shany Mor
· 21 min read
The Menace of a Respectable Hatred
What remains of a person, an institution, or a civilisation that dishonours itself when Jews and Israel become the targets of hatred and violence?
Yuki Zeman
· 16 min read
The Greatest Tradition of All
Apart from the Declaration and Constitution, there is perhaps no more essentially American document than Thomas Paine’s revolutionary pamphlet ‘Common Sense.’
Matt Johnson
· 8 min read
Jefferson and the Source of Human Rights
To understand the intent of the US Declaration of Independence, recall that its primary author was a deist rather than a Christian.
Coel Hellier
· 7 min read