The Honour and the Duty
Yossi Cohen has written a bracing and lively memoir about his time as head of Mossad.
Michael M. Rosen
· 6 min read
Politics
A collection of 618 posts
Rewarding Rejectionism
A new book by two former peace processors makes clear that statehood was never the goal of the Palestinian cause.
Shany Mor
· 12 min read
The Problem with Alt. Media
What the Hughes/Smith debate tells us about the podcast era.
Matt Johnson
· 14 min read
The Melbourne Crimewave
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.
Andrew Bushnell
· 10 min read
The Genocide Libel
A new report from the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies separates verifiable facts from politically motivated fiction in Gaza.
Andrew Fox
· 24 min read
The Good War No More
Jon Lee Anderson’s powerful new book on Afghanistan reminds us that the justness of a cause is no guarantee of its success.
Brian Stewart
· 6 min read
The Liberal-International Order Will Survive
...but it will need to be reimagined in the post-Trump era.
Matt Johnson
· 20 min read
Dangerous Games
In its quest to exploit Myanmar for diverse ends, the Chinese Communist Party keeps underestimating the state’s volatility.
Aaron Sarin
· 9 min read
The Masses and the Market
If liberalism is to recover it must find a way to create the conditions for a better future.
Joel Kotkin
· 11 min read
Working for the Company
The modern CIA is everything its enemies and friends say it is—by turns heroic, villainous, duplicitous, servile, and frequently ineffective.
Ron Capshaw
· 9 min read
The Post-Kirk Clampdown
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.
Patrick Frey
· 22 min read
Peace and Appeasement
Israel now stands accused of genocide for refusing to accept its own annihilation.
Yuki Zeman
· 8 min read
Pride and Prejudice
The self-esteem movements that once deranged America’s school curricula have since deranged the realm of identity activism.
Steve Salerno
· 16 min read
America’s Rancorous Public Square
Political discourse during our polarised moment can be vicious and exhausting, but it is still preferable to the alternative.
Milton Ezrati
· 8 min read
The Phantom Enemy of the Culture War
The postwar decline of the West was not sabotage, it was conviction slowly unwound in the face of horror.
Joseph Zeller
· 9 min read