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The Return of History: Liberal Values and Global Realities

Only when we understand the fragility of liberal democracy will we be properly motivated to defend it.

Zak Schneider

21 Aug 2024 · 9 min read

Crown of a nuclear bomb explosion over Mururoa atoll, French Polynesia, Pacific Ocean

The End of the World as We Know It

Far from enhancing American national security, or the security of the world, nuclear weapons will lead us to the edge of destruction.

Lawrence M. Krauss

6 May 2024 · 7 min read

Debunking Myths About the War in Gaza: Quillette Cetera Episode 23

Forensic anthropologist and former U.S. Marine Julian McBride joins Quillette Cetera host Zoe Booth in a discussion about the war in Gaza.

Zoe Booth

25 Nov 2023 · 1 min read

Troubadour at War

Leonard Cohen’s visit to Israel in its darkest hour.

Ari David Blaff

7 Jul 2022 · 8 min read

Has Olivia Manning’s ‘Fortunes of War’ Finally Found Its Moment?

The Ukrainian war has made Manning’s writing more relevant now than at any time since it was written.

Robin Ashenden

2 Jun 2022 · 11 min read

The End of War Poetry

Among literary forms, war poetry is unusual for having enjoyed a universally acknowledged and tightly defined golden age.

Simon Evans

17 May 2022 · 9 min read

Vladimir Putin’s Medieval Mindset

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

Jonathan Kay

3 Mar 2022 · 5 min read

Europe’s Big Bang: How Gunpowder Transformed the Medieval World

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

Paul Lockhart

10 Nov 2021 · 16 min read

Stopped Cold: Remembering Russia's Catastrophic 1939 Campaign Against Finland

Many Finnish soldiers felt pity for their opponents, prodded into battle by merciless commissars.

Sean McMeekin

20 Apr 2021 · 13 min read

The Delusions of Crowds—A Review

Published in 1841, Mackay’s Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is as amusing a survey of human folly as has ever been written.

Clayton Trutor

8 Feb 2021 · 8 min read

The Iraq War Was Not About Oil

American oil companies didn’t want to topple Saddam Hussein; they wanted to trade with him.

Tal Tyagi

6 May 2019 · 11 min read

The Plight of Pitch Wars

In 2019, though, it turns out that yes, you’re entitled to a book deal—as long as you collect enough marginalization points.

J. Avery

9 Feb 2019 · 6 min read

The Next War Will Be an Information War, and We're Not Ready For It

Information warfare combines electronic warfare, cyberwarfare and psy-ops (psychological operations) into a single fighting organisation, and this will be central to all warfare in the future.

David Stupples

27 Nov 2015 · 5 min read