“Social Trust Has Really Eroded”
An interview with Francis Fukuyama.
Matt Johnson, Francis Fukuyama
· 29 min read
Ukraine
A collection of 55 posts
After Liberal Internationalism
The post-11 September wars set in motion political forces that constrained and undermined American power at the moment it was needed most.
Matt Johnson
· 21 min read
One Hundred Days of Ineptitude
Even those of us who sounded alarms before the November election underestimated just how unhinged the second Trump presidency would turn out to be.
Cathy Young
· 13 min read
Victims of Realism
Alexander Vindman’s bracing new book argues that Ukraine has been made to suffer the consequences of Western naivety and restraint.
Brian Stewart
· 6 min read
Border Wars and the Return of Fear
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.
John Lloyd
· 10 min read
The MAGA War on Ukraine
Why does so much of the US Right hate a country valiantly resisting a war of aggression?
Cathy Young
· 13 min read
The World Trump Is Building
The strong will do what they can and the weak will suffer what they must.
Matt Johnson
· 12 min read
Podcast #274: David Frum on Donald Trump’s Betrayal of Ukraine
Jonathan Kay speaks with Atlantic writer David Frum about Trump’s pro-Russian political cult. Also discussed: Israel, the fate of Gaza, Justin Trudeau, and the strange social panic surrounding Canada’s (as yet undiscovered) ‘unmarked graves.’
Quillette
· 2 min read
The End of NATO, or The Sixth Impossible Thing
The Trump administration has liquidated the postwar international order.
Adam Garfinkle
· 20 min read
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
The Ultimate Betrayal
America just switched sides in the Ukraine war.
Francis Fukuyama
· 4 min read
Fragile Europe, On Its Own
European leaders are struggling to cope with the multiple crises now facing the beleaguered continent.
John Lloyd
· 8 min read
Europe Awaits Trump II
The president-elect’s arrival in the White House will likely galvanise the European New Right and doom the Ukrainian resistance.
John Lloyd
· 8 min read
From Terror Tunnels to Suicide Drones
Military innovations in the current Middle East conflict are changing the nature of warfare and are likely to be widely copied around the world in the future.
Benny Morris
· 12 min read
Over-Learning the Lessons of Iraq
Russia, Iran, and the failure of US resolve.
Oscar Clarke
· 10 min read