An Army of Yesterday’s Civilians: Ukraine and the Fight for Freedom
Do Europeans fully grasp what the fall of Ukraine would mean for the rest of the continent?
Maarten Boudry
· 24 min read
Politics
A collection of 743 posts
The Naivety of Well-Meaning Christian Leaders
The Church of England and the failures of interfaith politics.
Hardeep Singh
· 7 min read
Genocide and Its Jurors
In 1967, left-wing intellectuals accused America of genocide in Vietnam—they were wrong then, and they’re wrong again now.
Maia Zelkha
· 8 min read
Banning the Horseless Carriage
Bernie Sanders wants to outlaw artificial superintelligence. The risks he points to are real—but the answer to a powerful new technology is regulation, not prohibition, and China has no intention of pausing.
John Aziz
· 10 min read
The Real End of the Arab–Israeli Conflict?
The strategic case for Syria–Israel normalisation.
Aurele Tobelem
· 8 min read
Israel's Most Consequential Election
Israelis go to the polls on 27 October. After seventeen years of Netanyahu, former IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot is in the lead.
Benny Morris
· 15 min read
A Bright September Day
Reflections on a morning that changed the world as we knew it.
Jesse Inman
· 6 min read
The Retro Fashion of the Wealth Tax
Every few decades, the ideas with the worst track records come back into style.
Kristian Niemietz
· 8 min read
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
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