Vapid Antiwar-ism Since 7 October, Nicholas Kristof has produced a torrent of outraged testimony that betrays a refusal to grapple with the world as it is. Brian Stewart 13 Jun 2024 · 9 min read
Political Polarisation in Australia We are at a crossroads—either we prepare for a world of identity politics and populism, or we restore settlement politics in Australia. Damien Freeman 2 Jun 2024 · 19 min read
Fear and the Overton Window The movement to abolish child welfare is endangering children, but professionals are afraid to speak up. Naomi Schaefer Riley 31 May 2024 · 8 min read
Britain’s Golden Slumber The British establishment’s China policy resembles a man periodically waking only to fall asleep again. Aaron Sarin 30 May 2024 · 11 min read
The Politicisation of International Justice A dissection of the ICC’s warrant application reveals that obvious liberties have been taken with the truth. Norman J.W. Goda 29 May 2024 · 11 min read
The Limits of ‘The Israel Lobby’ Mearsheimer and Walt still don’t understand American support for Israel. Matt Johnson 29 May 2024 · 25 min read
Waltzing Down the Road to Hell The unintended consequences of the Sixties’ antiwar protests have become the farce of their 21st-century iteration. Adam Garfinkle 27 May 2024 · 15 min read
What Does It Mean for Something to Be Socially Constructed? There are at least three things that people might mean by ‘socially constructed’: that something is social, rather than natural; contextual, rather than universal; or that its importance has been inflated. Holly Lawford-Smith 27 May 2024 · 7 min read
The Bell 212 Tolls for Tehran We should celebrate the death of the Butcher of Tehran, but Iran’s future remains fraught with uncertainty. Paul Monk 25 May 2024 · 11 min read
The Debate Over Lab-Grown Meat Are concerns about cultured meat justified? Matthew Adelstein 15 May 2024 · 9 min read
Very Bad Government From the beginning, the SNP leadership has skilfully papered over its failures and absurdities with soaring rhetoric of the better life to come once Scotland is “free.” John Lloyd 3 May 2024 · 11 min read
Springtime for Sinwar Notes on the pro-Hamas Left and its antecedents. Jeffrey Herf 2 May 2024 · 21 min read
Bad History at the BBC A new radio series about the 1943 Bengal famine favours culture-war polemic over rigorous scholarship. Hira Jungkow 2 May 2024 · 6 min read
The Great Divide As CCP corruption and waste has run rampant, the gulf between rich and poor has widened. Aaron Sarin 27 Apr 2024 · 9 min read
Misadventures of a Stalinist Stooge Benn Steil’s engrossing new biography of Henry A. Wallace is a timely cautionary tale and a masterpiece of 20th-century American history. Ronald Radosh 25 Apr 2024 · 23 min read
