The Wrong Man
In Iran, Donald Trump is showing us what a populist war looks like.
Michael J. Totten
· 11 min read
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The Iran War: An Explainer
A selection of essays and interviews in Quillette examining how and why Iran and the West are at war, and what is likely to happen next.
Quillette
· 5 min read
Postliberalism After Hungary
Orbán’s defeat should scare the hell out of populist authoritarians.
Matt Johnson
· 13 min read
Germany’s Cozy Catastrophe
The German state has been generous to its beneficiaries—but that largesse is becoming increasingly unsustainable.
Andreas Paul John
· 18 min read
Foreign Power, Local Politics
Where local collaboration is absent, foreign intervention imposes enormous costs or simply stalls. Where it exists, intervention can succeed with surprising velocity.
Pablo Policzer
· 10 min read
A Costly Misconception
Now that glyphosate has become a national-security issue, it’s time to revisit the source of misinformation about this controversial herbicide.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 10 min read
Communism’s Obsolescence
The structural case for why collectivist systems fail.
Michael Aaron Cody
· 6 min read
The Axis of Renewal
Israel and the United States have already done much to dismantle the Axis of Resistance, but the broader network supported by Iran remains most active in Western Europe.
Aurele Tobelem
· 11 min read
The Edifice Complex
Monuments don’t create legacy; they merely memorialise it.
Timothy Devinney
· 6 min read
The First Post-Ideological Bedouin State
Why the misunderstood sovereign UAE thrives, and why ideologues—from the Islamic Republic to the Muslim Brotherhood—are invested in its demise.
Chama Mechtaly
· 11 min read
Trump, Tehran, and the China Calculus
The CCP will certainly take advantage should Iran turn into a major distraction for the US.
Aaron Sarin
· 7 min read
War in Straitened Circumstances
After nineteen days of war, Israel and America face a grinding conflict with Iran and Hezbollah, and there is no clear end in sight.
Benny Morris
· 14 min read
A Paradoxical War
The American debate about the campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Jeffrey Herf
· 19 min read
Hearts of Darkness
Laura K. Field’s smart new book takes a critical look at MAGA’s Ivy League intellectuals.
George Case
· 8 min read
A New World Order in the Making
An interview with Dr Shmuel Bar.
Hannah Gal, Shmuel Bar
· 13 min read