Hearts of Darkness
Laura K. Field’s smart new book takes a critical look at MAGA’s Ivy League intellectuals.
A collection of 710 posts
Laura K. Field’s smart new book takes a critical look at MAGA’s Ivy League intellectuals.
An interview with Dr Shmuel Bar.
Australia has long been considered politically stable compared with Europe and the United States. But according to political scientist Eric Kaufmann, that period of “Australian exceptionalism” may be coming to an end.
Why Germans fear American religion, and what this reveals about Europe.
Israel faces not a solvable conflict but a permanent condition—one requiring deterrence, “violent maintenance,” and historic patience—while confronting both regional enemies and a cultural battle in the West.
How we learned to reason poorly with accurate data.
Too often, the UN’s valuable field work is overshadowed by cynical political posturing. As a result, collecting annual dues from member states has become more difficult.
Operation Epic Fury is not just about Iran.
The Supreme Court has just invalidated Trump’s tariff agenda. But the economics were already doing that.
The first lady’s surreal act of geopolitical theatre did little to explain how the ongoing US–Israeli military campaign against Iran’s brutal theocrats will make the world safer.
The Islamic Republic’s assault on the Gulf will forge the new Middle East.
In geopolitics, moral culture shapes whether influence is experienced as leadership or domination, cooperation or coercion.
Iran has never been weaker and America has never been more poorly led.
The real dilemma is not between war and negotiation. It is between episodic action and sustained architecture.
The surge in support for Australia’s populist right-wing party One Nation suggests that immigration restrictionism has become increasingly popular with voters: a political trajectory that echoes that of many other Western nations.