A collection of 620 posts
The “Gaza genocide” calumny has become the Left’s equivalent of the “stolen election” hoax on the American Right—a baseless accusation that signals ideological allegiance precisely because it defies logic and evidence.
Lessons from 7 October and the 2023–25 war.
Yossi Cohen has written a bracing and lively memoir about his time as head of Mossad.
A new book by two former peace processors makes clear that statehood was never the goal of the Palestinian cause.
What the Hughes/Smith debate tells us about the podcast era.
Criminal-justice reformers like to say that it is better to be ‘smart on crime’ than ‘tough on crime.’ But sometimes being tough is the smart choice.
A new report from the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies separates verifiable facts from politically motivated fiction in Gaza.
Jon Lee Anderson’s powerful new book on Afghanistan reminds us that the justness of a cause is no guarantee of its success.
...but it will need to be reimagined in the post-Trump era.
In its quest to exploit Myanmar for diverse ends, the Chinese Communist Party keeps underestimating the state’s volatility.
If liberalism is to recover it must find a way to create the conditions for a better future.
The modern CIA is everything its enemies and friends say it is—by turns heroic, villainous, duplicitous, servile, and frequently ineffective.
The current frenzy of right-wing cancel culture recalls the progressive lunacy that followed the murder of George Floyd. But the current iteration is more dangerous because it is backed by state power.
Israel now stands accused of genocide for refusing to accept its own annihilation.
The self-esteem movements that once deranged America’s school curricula have since deranged the realm of identity activism.