Kissinger’s Folly
In its cold materialist outlook, Realism fails to recognize that every nation has a unique set of interests shaped by its own history, geography, and beliefs.
Brian Stewart
· 16 min read
Politics
A collection of 523 posts
The Genocidal Imagination
Philosophies of human cruelty, from Sade to October 7th.
Pascal Bruckner
· 21 min read
The Carbon-Neutral Dumpster Fire
RTÉ’s ludicrous environmentalist docudrama Tomorrow Tonight reflects the Irish state’s perverse commitment to a politics of self-harm.
Aidan Harte
· 9 min read
Is Venezuela About to Invade Guyana?
Analysts are skeptical and Guyana is nervous. But history teaches us to pay attention when an unpopular despot starts to speak the language of irredentism.
Juan P. Villasmil
· 8 min read
Kissinger and Cambodia
Attempts to hold US policy solely responsible for the rise of the Khmer Rouge are historically inept.
Lachlan Peters
· 20 min read
Bias and Betrayal
The extensive rot at the heart of Human Rights Watch.
Gerald M. Steinberg
· 14 min read
Apostles of Appeasement
A short history of phoney peace groups and their fellow travellers.
Oscar Clarke
· 10 min read
Gaza and the Asymmetry Trap
The defeat of Hamas is a moral necessity, but that does not obviate Israel’s responsibility to minimize civilian suffering.
Michael Walzer
· 10 min read
The New Normal?
Election results in the Netherlands and Argentina provide evidence of the vigour and variety of the New Right and its global reach.
John Lloyd
· 6 min read
The Pervert’s Guide to Philosophy
Costin Alamariu’s (AKA Bronze Age Pervert's) doctoral dissertation is attracting a lot of interest but it doesn’t add up to much.
Oliver Traldi
· 19 min read
An End to the Mirage
Republicans and Democrats have both learned the wrong lessons from Iraq.
Brian Stewart
· 9 min read
Holocaust Historians, the Genocide Charge, and Gaza
The accusation is wrong on the facts and objectively serves to support the intent of Hamas to murder Jews with impunity.
Norman J.W. Goda, Jeffrey Herf
· 11 min read
They Told Me So
How my parents swallowed a frog to save me from antisemitism.
Thomas P. Balazs
· 16 min read
Israel, Gaza, and Proportionality
Simply counting the dead does not produce a moral verdict.
Shlomo Cohen
· 8 min read
The Return of the Progressive Atrocity
It is the responsibility of Western activists to know who and what they support, and to separate themselves—openly and decisively—from programs and regimes that are predicated on violence and repression.
Susie Linfield
· 21 min read