World Affairs - Quillette (Page 6)

Private Military Contracting Is Misunderstood

Like all competitive industries, contracting evolved and became heavily corporate in nature, leaving the cowboy conduct behind in 2006, but retaining the cowboy image for sex appeal.

August Gold

28 Jan 2020 · 7 min read

Behind the Great Firewall

For the most part, the Great Firewall (GFW) is irrelevant for the average Chinese citizen, mostly irrelevant for most Chinese netizens, and for many of the rest it protects their ability to make money.

Thomas Brown

24 Jan 2020 · 11 min read

How Long Before the Regime Falls in Iran?

Opposition to the regime is not just to be found in the clergy. It is wide and deep but also unfocused.

Art Keller

20 Jan 2020 · 12 min read

Iran’s Fawning Western Apologists

Many Western leftists repeated the Ayatollahs’ talking points.

Kaveh Shahrooz

8 Jan 2020 · 5 min read

Bloody Harvest—How Everyone Ignored the Crime of the Century

Aaron Sarin

3 Jan 2020 · 12 min read

The Apologist's Apologist—A Reply to Robert Wright

Blumenthal’s politics are morally repellent and intellectually dishonest and should be exposed as such.

Matt Johnson

25 Dec 2019 · 8 min read

Tensions in NATO and the Looming End of Pax Americana

Brian Stewart

5 Dec 2019 · 6 min read

The New White Man's Burden

It is unforgivable that the rulers of the countries from which citizens are attempting to enter Europe utter not a word when tragedy befalls unseaworthy vessels in the Mediterranean, and they make no effort to have the bodies of the dead returned home.

Rumy Hasan

5 Dec 2019 · 6 min read

Something for Nothing—The Importance of Mindful Volunteering

If we are going to contribute our talent and effort to causes as volunteers, we should do so mindfully, as we should with the rest of the choices in our lives, such as whom we choose as lovers or friends.

Chuck Lanigan

4 Dec 2019 · 7 min read

Iran Protests: It's not about Gas Prices

The protests went on for a few weeks, until the regime successfully repressed them with a violent crackdown, but economic conditions only worsened.

Shay Khatiri

28 Nov 2019 · 8 min read

Bereft of Impartial Arbiters

Brian Stewart

19 Nov 2019 · 5 min read

Abandoning Malmö to Its Criminals

The explosion happened three blocks away, but the sound had become so familiar that I went back to sleep without even getting out of bed to check on my twins.