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Arguments that patriarchy exists in the West today are largely dependent on reinventions of the concept that would be better dispensed with.
The new European commitment to defence and Russia’s unshakeable wish to control Ukraine have revived an awareness that war is something with which comfortable and relatively wealthy states may still have to live.
Accusations of Trump Derangement Syndrome and Trump himself are both products of the social-media age.
Clay Risen’s new book about the American “Red Scare” emphasises the injustices of anti-communism but minimises the true extent and danger of communist infiltration.
The pope is not a source of ethical wisdom.
Israel’s experience in Gaza provides a sobering preview of what high-intensity urban warfare can entail, and how modern militaries must evolve to achieve decisive and ethical victories in any future conflict.
Why does so much of the US Right hate a country valiantly resisting a war of aggression?
The Trump/Musk administration’s approach to cutting costs makes good political sense in the short-run. But from a longer-run governing perspective, it is a recipe for disaster.
Forced to choose between believing the claims of Israeli women and maintaining solidarity with Palestinians, Western academic feminists chose the latter.
The strong will do what they can and the weak will suffer what they must.
Forced to choose between the values upheld by the National Endowment for Democracy and fealty to Donald Trump, Republicans have opted for the latter.
The debate about Rickard Andersson’s killing spree has been informed by an unhealthy discourse about race and immigration in Sweden.
Musk and Trump are inflicting catastrophic damage on biomedical research.
The Trump administration has liquidated the postwar international order.
After three punishing years of war, the Trump administration is preparing to reduce a ravaged country to the status of US protectorate.