A collection of 63 posts
Joe Sacco’s graphic works provide vivid and moving depictions of the terrible suffering in the Strip. But his accounts of the causes of that suffering are simplistic and one-sided in the extreme.
In a recent speech delivered at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, a Quillette editor describes lessons he learned while investigating the school’s teachers college.
Adolescence is a moving work of art but a misleading representation of the challenges facing British boys.
How Trump’s tariffs and foreign policy signal the third phase of US decline on the world stage.
Populist rhetoric and the hidden costs of economic illiteracy.
Valid critiques of progressive moralism have devolved into an embrace of anything-goes strongman rule.
President Trump’s protectionist policies are erratic, ill-defined, and incoherent.
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.