Politics

A Different Concept of Death

An interview with author and intellectual Paul Berman about Hamas’s ideology and Western blindness.

Paul Berman 30 Oct 2023 · 7 min read

A Failure to Communicate

Jeff Sharlet’s new book is a stark and dispiriting dispatch from Trump country.

Matt Hanson 30 Oct 2023 · 6 min read

Failing the Hamas Litmus Test

The inflammatory Al-Ahli hospital hoax shows that much of the Western media remains compulsively addicted to dangerous and self-defeating war journalism.

Richard Landes 25 Oct 2023 · 13 min read

Shadows No More

A new book examines Israel’s mounting campaign to check Iran.

Brian Stewart 25 Oct 2023 · 7 min read

Liberalism Against Utopianism

Samuel Moyn’s analysis of what ails liberal societies is fatally compromised by his own socialist commitments.

Alan S. Rome 24 Oct 2023 · 9 min read

Mind the Gap

If he is to reunite Poland, Donald Tusk will have to balance his strong support for the EU with citizens’ legitimate concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty.

John Lloyd 21 Oct 2023 · 8 min read

It’s Not the Occupation

It is rarely the case that all of the blame for a conflict belongs on one side. But that does not mean blame should be equally divided.

David Benatar 21 Oct 2023 · 7 min read

Debating the New Elite

A Prospect magazine debate at Conway Hall pitched the Anywheres, represented by former Times columnist David Aaronovitch, against the Somewheres, represented by postliberal academic Matthew Goodwin.

John Lloyd 20 Oct 2023 · 6 min read