China’s Female Revolt How sexist violence killed the Chinese Dream. Aaron Sarin 1 Nov 2023 · 13 min read
A Murder in Namibia How two bungling American assassins travelled over 7,000 miles to settle a grudge, and then turned their trial into a nine-year circus. Dan Kowalski 1 Nov 2023 · 15 min read
A Different Concept of Death An interview with author and intellectual Paul Berman about Hamas’s ideology and Western blindness. Paul Berman 30 Oct 2023 · 7 min read
A Failure to Communicate Jeff Sharlet’s new book is a stark and dispiriting dispatch from Trump country. Matt Hanson 30 Oct 2023 · 6 min read
Failing the Hamas Litmus Test The inflammatory Al-Ahli hospital hoax shows that much of the Western media remains compulsively addicted to dangerous and self-defeating war journalism. Richard Landes 25 Oct 2023 · 13 min read
Shadows No More A new book examines Israel’s mounting campaign to check Iran. Brian Stewart 25 Oct 2023 · 7 min read
Liberalism Against Utopianism Samuel Moyn’s analysis of what ails liberal societies is fatally compromised by his own socialist commitments. Alan S. Rome 24 Oct 2023 · 9 min read
Mind the Gap If he is to reunite Poland, Donald Tusk will have to balance his strong support for the EU with citizens’ legitimate concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty. John Lloyd 21 Oct 2023 · 8 min read
It’s Not the Occupation It is rarely the case that all of the blame for a conflict belongs on one side. But that does not mean blame should be equally divided. David Benatar 21 Oct 2023 · 7 min read
Debating the New Elite A Prospect magazine debate at Conway Hall pitched the Anywheres, represented by former Times columnist David Aaronovitch, against the Somewheres, represented by postliberal academic Matthew Goodwin. John Lloyd 20 Oct 2023 · 6 min read
The Gazan Gordian Knot Following a litany of failures, Israel must now contemplate a menu of bad options. Shmuel Bar 13 Oct 2023 · 14 min read
Israel’s New Reality In these dire circumstances, deterrence will only be restored with overwhelming force. Brian Stewart 12 Oct 2023 · 6 min read
The Ideology of Mass Murder Hamas and the origins of the October 7th attacks. Jeffrey Herf 10 Oct 2023 · 9 min read
The Disaster Artist Was Liz Truss Britain’s first affirmative-action prime minister? Laurie Wastell 7 Oct 2023 · 10 min read
The Insidious Lie That We Can’t Understand Each Other And a guide for how to productively push back against the identity trap. Yascha Mounk 4 Oct 2023 · 16 min read
