A collection of 19 posts
An Iranian-born political analyst breaks down the origins of Iran’s latest protest movement, the regime’s brutal response, and what a political transition could look like.
The UN Rapporteur’s latest report channels a single-minded contempt for the Jewish state.
An in-depth interview with Chapin Fay of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation on delivering aid in a war zone—and why their unconventional model has drawn both praise and criticism.
Iona Italia talks to historian and film-maker Phil Craig about the latest in his series of books about World War II: ‘1945: A Reckoning: War, Empire and the Struggle for a New World.’
Advancing technology is changing the way we fight wars and our understanding of heroism.
Only when we understand the fragility of liberal democracy will we be properly motivated to defend it.
Far from enhancing American national security, or the security of the world, nuclear weapons will lead us to the edge of destruction.
Pamela Paresky interviews Israeli volunteer Tasha Cohen on founding Chayal’s Angels, a grassroots initiative supporting reservists with trauma-informed care during the 2023–24 war.
Forensic anthropologist and former U.S. Marine Julian McBride joins Quillette Cetera host Zoe Booth in a discussion about the war in Gaza.
Leonard Cohen’s visit to Israel in its darkest hour.
The Ukrainian war has made Manning’s writing more relevant now than at any time since it was written.
Among literary forms, war poetry is unusual for having enjoyed a universally acknowledged and tightly defined golden age.
In 1338, the story has it, a notorious French exile named Robert of Artois strutted into the London palace of King Edward III, bearing a stuffed heron on a silver platter. “Clear the way, you miserable failures,” he said to the assembled lords. “I have a heron … the most cowardly
Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy, was a warrior’s warrior. Hawk-nosed, ambitious, and brash, Philip had been a soldier since childhood. He was still a smooth-faced boy of 14 when he fought alongside his father, King John II of France, in the battle of Poitiers in 1356. Like King
Many Finnish soldiers felt pity for their opponents, prodded into battle by merciless commissars.