A collection of 41 posts
The media’s obsessive focus on the Israel–Palestine conflict obscures the broader picture of the ubiquity of jihadism in the Middle East, and the crucial role it plays in stoking and perpetuating turmoil and strife.
My best friend had a psychotic break—our crisscrossing journeys through facts and fictions in thirteen chapters.
Accusations of Trump Derangement Syndrome and Trump himself are both products of the social-media age.
Israel’s experience in Gaza provides a sobering preview of what high-intensity urban warfare can entail, and how modern militaries must evolve to achieve decisive and ethical victories in any future conflict.
Why does so much of the US Right hate a country valiantly resisting a war of aggression?
The Trump/Musk administration’s approach to cutting costs makes good political sense in the short-run. But from a longer-run governing perspective, it is a recipe for disaster.
Musk and Trump are inflicting catastrophic damage on biomedical research.
The Trump administration has liquidated the postwar international order.
Those seeking to address the crisis on America’s campuses should resist the tendency toward nihilism—the temptation to conclude that we need to just (metaphorically) burn it all down. q
From laissez-faire to lèse-majesté: an embarrassment in four fits.
Civil-rights law made the DEI world; civil-rights reform can unmake it.
Remembering Don Symons (1942–2024).
Climate change makes fires more dangerous. Government competence matters. And preventing catastrophic fires requires expensive, unpopular measures.
Justin Trudeau convinced me he was a sunny patriot who’d unify Canada. What I got instead was a cynical culture warrior who smeared opponents as bigots and defamed my country as a genocide state.
Iran and Russia have suffered serious setbacks over the past year, but grave dangers remain.