A collection of 81 posts
In an excellent new biography of Rasputin, British military historian Antony Beevor argues that perception can be a more powerful shaper of world events than reality.
The foreign origins of Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson’s antisemitism.
Any invasion of Greenland would be a logistical nightmare with no economic upside.
The latest Russian “peace proposal” is a set of demands designed to enable a complete Russian takeover of Ukraine, which would otherwise be impossible to achieve.
In a new biography of Stalin, William Nester does his best to locate a human being within the monster, but those efforts eventually run aground.
The real hoax is the one being peddled by the Trump administration right now.
Putin’s fixation on Ukraine is eroding his empire.
An interview with Francis Fukuyama.
The post-11 September wars set in motion political forces that constrained and undermined American power at the moment it was needed most.
Even those of us who sounded alarms before the November election underestimated just how unhinged the second Trump presidency would turn out to be.
Alexander Vindman’s bracing new book argues that Ukraine has been made to suffer the consequences of Western naivety and restraint.
The new European commitment to defence and Russia’s unshakeable wish to control Ukraine have revived an awareness that war is something with which comfortable and relatively wealthy states may still have to live.
The history of Soviet totalitarianism is now being rewritten.
Why does so much of the US Right hate a country valiantly resisting a war of aggression?
The strong will do what they can and the weak will suffer what they must.