Ukraine’s Terrible Choice
After three punishing years of war, the Trump administration is preparing to reduce a ravaged country to the status of US protectorate.
John Lloyd
· 16 min read
Politics
A collection of 613 posts
From Imperium to Expansionism
Donald Trump is often described as an imperialist and an expansionist and these terms are usually used interchangeably. Neither of these descriptions is meant to be flattering, but the larger problem is that they are imprecise.
Ronald W. Dworkin
· 13 min read
A Kinder, Gentler Eliminationism
Peter Beinart has responded to the 7 October massacre and subsequent Gaza war with a deeply duplicitous book.
Susie Linfield
· 18 min read
How Hong Kong’s Struggle Came to Britain
Conflict is brewing between Hongkongers who have made the UK their home and a Communist Party that wants to make the UK its vassal.
Aaron Sarin
· 8 min read
The Evisceration of Hong Kong
From laissez-faire to lèse-majesté: an embarrassment in four fits.
Geoff Privisant
· 13 min read
Information Warfare: Why America Needs a Deterrence Strategy
Humankind’s propensity to believe convenient fiction is as old and strong as our propensity for war. The United States needs to adopt a pragmatic deterrence strategy.
Gary Geipel
· 6 min read
American Exceptionalism Reconsidered
Exceptionalism is a double-edged sword, which cuts those blind to America’s flaws and those blind to its virtues.
Brian Stewart
· 7 min read
Trump and the DEI Counter-Revolution
Civil-rights law made the DEI world; civil-rights reform can unmake it.
Thomas F. Powers
· 44 min read
Fentanyl in America: Geography of a Crisis
There are no quick and easy solutions to America’s illegal fentanyl problem.
Robert C. Thornett
· 11 min read
The Open Society and Its New Enemies
What Karl Popper’s classic can teach us about the threats facing democracies today.
Matt Johnson
· 27 min read
Hamas and the Red Cross
What remains of the ICRC’s ostensible commitment to “neutrality, impartiality and independence” has been destroyed by the Gaza war.
Gerald M. Steinberg
· 9 min read
REDnote and the TikTok Refugees
If they manage to stay on REDnote long enough, former TikTokers will surely begin to notice that all is not as it seems in modern China.
Aaron Sarin
· 6 min read
The Hard and Soft New Right
In Central and Eastern Europe, the more extreme wing of the continent’s radical Right is gaining ground.
John Lloyd
· 12 min read
How the Media Broke the Immigration Debate
What good is a free press if it lacks the courage to ask difficult questions about our most important problems?
Tomás Sidenfaden
· 11 min read
Jihadist at a Crossroads
Syria’s new leader will have to balance his Islamist beliefs with the more pressing tasks of state-building and economic development.
Sean Welsh
· 11 min read