A collection of 27 posts
America and the West have once again betrayed their Kurdish allies. Al-Sharaa’s assault on the Kurds of northern Syria, with Turkish backing, is just the latest chapter in the Kurds’ long struggle for self-rule.
Even if unsuccessful, Donald Trump’s aggressive campaign to acquire Greenland threatens to undermine America’s reputation as a champion of western security, freedom, and co-operation.
Greenland and the erosion of deep literacy.
Any invasion of Greenland would be a logistical nightmare with no economic upside.
It is difficult to overstate just how reactionary Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy is.
Obama veterans never understood the Middle East, and they never will.
Shadi Hamid has an uneasy conscience, and he doesn’t yet know what to do with it.
The Jewish state has secured its borders, recovered all living hostages, and put its enemies on notice as to what awaits them if they attempt a reprise of 7 October.
A new book by two former peace processors makes clear that statehood was never the goal of the Palestinian cause.
What the Hughes/Smith debate tells us about the podcast era.
Jon Lee Anderson’s powerful new book on Afghanistan reminds us that the justness of a cause is no guarantee of its success.
...but it will need to be reimagined in the post-Trump era.
What realists like Emma Ashford deride as America’s “reactionary defence of the status quo” is in fact a prudent effort to preserve a world order of unparalleled value.
Aaron Sarin’s misreadings of my essay support my thesis and show why we need to think more carefully about China.
A reply to D. Marshall.