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
Politics
A collection of 725 posts
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
Promises Made and (Eventually) Kept
The Declaration of Independence at 250.
Michael M. Rosen
· 8 min read
Abolish Everything, Replace It With What?
Zohran Mamdani's allies want to abolish the police, prisons, borders, and capitalism. None of them have said what comes next.
John Aziz
· 6 min read
State of Failure
Trump ignored Clausewitz, and disaster ensued.
Brian Stewart
· 10 min read
China’s Last Moonshot
China’s ghost cities are like a mocking glimpse of the Chinese century we were told to expect, and for which we are still waiting.
Aaron Sarin
· 5 min read
Perceptions of Weakness
In his panic-stricken effort to disentangle America from the Middle Eastern mess, Trump now appears to be falling into line with Tehran’s wishes.
Benny Morris
· 13 min read
The Party of the Worker Is Now the Party of the Bureaucrat
The old fight was labour versus capital. The real fight now is between those who create value and those who administer it, and Australia's new budget has picked the wrong side.
Claire Lehmann
· 13 min read
Four Inconvenient Truths About the Conflict in Lebanon
Western political will and good intentions are no match for a complex reality rife with conflicting interests and ideologies.
Eric Bordenkircher
· 9 min read
The Enemy Within
Iran is not Saudi Arabia’s biggest problem.
Chama Mechtaly
· 13 min read
The Destructivists
When the appetite for moral reform becomes an appetite for destruction.
John Aziz
· 8 min read
An Electoral Reckoning at Last?
Benjamin Netanyahu’s unprecedented tenure as Israeli prime minister may be about to end.
Benny Morris
· 9 min read