The Vilnius Fiasco There is a better way to protect Ukrainian sovereignty and security—and long-term Western interests—than NATO membership. Adam Garfinkle 4 Jan 2024 · 24 min read
Apostles of Appeasement A short history of phoney peace groups and their fellow travellers. Oscar Clarke 5 Dec 2023 · 10 min read
Unrealistic Realism on Ukraine Moral relativism, and its equally dubious corollary of moral equivalence, too often mars contemporary Realists’ conceptions of political realities. Borys M. Kowalsky 14 Nov 2023 · 13 min read
A Country in the Making Sean Penn’s surprising new documentary explores “extreme history” in war-torn Ukraine. Brian Stewart 29 Sep 2023 · 6 min read
The Ukrainian Year Ukraine has been instrumental in restoring a focus on what matters to the people and elected leaders of the West. Jesse Inman 26 Feb 2023 · 5 min read
Mearsheimer: Rigor or Reaction? What John J. Mearsheimer gets wrong about Ukraine, international affairs, and much else besides. Matt Johnson 15 Feb 2023 · 21 min read
Democracy’s Trenches The idea that the war in Ukraine is not our business is seductive but dangerously mistaken. John Lloyd 4 Jan 2023 · 11 min read
Horseshoe Theory Comes to Ukraine Putin’s Western apologists don’t reflect the usual conflict between Left and Right—but rather comprise an example of both poles making common cause against the center. The Quillette Editorial Board 16 Sep 2022 · 7 min read
What the Left Keeps Getting Wrong About Ukraine Vapid bromides about peace and negotiation are no substitute for policy and a frank acknowledgement of Russia’s responsibility for the conflict. Matt Johnson 9 Sep 2022 · 10 min read
The Roads Not Taken A new book by Orlando Figes explores the role of Russian history in the Ukranian war. John Lloyd 12 Aug 2022 · 10 min read
False Accusations and Ideological Bias Amnesty International, Ukraine, and the Illusion of NGO Fact-Finding Expertise. Gerald M. Steinberg 11 Aug 2022 · 13 min read
Zelensky’s Terrible Dilemma—and Ours Capitulation or Bloody Resistance? John Lloyd 4 Jun 2022 · 8 min read
Pacifism and Papal Fallibility The Pope is a perverse sort of pacifist, not a man of peace. Brian Stewart 20 May 2022 · 8 min read
The Hard Left and Populist Right Agree on All the Wrong Things The ideas that unite the hard Left and the populist Right against the West itself are the same ones that make them both so excited about the culture wars. Stephan Jensen 13 May 2022 · 8 min read
Putinism and the Stalinist Legacy From the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, justifications offered for Moscow’s aggression must have struck most non-Russian observers as unrealistic, to say the least. Many observers were incredulous that any educated Russian could possibly believe Putin’s claim that Ukraine required “denazification and demilitarization,” or that the country Tomislav Kardum 26 Apr 2022 · 7 min read
