The Scars of Rwanda, 25 Years On
Dallaire, abandoned in hell, the commander unable to command, let alone protect, developed severe post-traumatic stress disorder.
Jessica Robeson
· 12 min read
World Affairs
A collection of 149 posts
The Exhaustion of Hedgehog Morality
It is not a resurgence of “authoritarianism” that explains the current backlash against liberalism, as Kagan and others would have us believe.
Johan Wennström
· 8 min read
Venezuela and the Half-Truths of Noam Chomsky
Chomsky has spent his career attacking the crimes and incompetence of the US but excuses the same in its enemies.
Clifton Ross
· 13 min read
The Fall of a Third-Rate Stalin
Dissidents who weren’t assassinated outright might end up in Mile 2 Prison. Only a handful of Mile 2 inmates actually faced lethal injection—the prison’s principal methods of execution were disease and malnutrition.
Zachary Snowdon Smith
· 14 min read
The Attractions of the Clan—An Interview with Mark Weiner
My concern is that the left here is closing itself off, and that its resistance to thinking about cultural differences is a progressive parallel to right-wing climate change denial and that it could eventually eat it intellectually from inside.
Paulina Neuding and Mark S. Weiner
· 13 min read
How a Fake Scandal Took Down a Brazilian Fashion Editor
Addressing Brazil’s legacy of racism is surely one of my country’s most urgent moral priorities.
Raphael Tsavkko Garcia
· 7 min read
China is Gearing up for a Long Fight
If China is responsible for the attack on the Australian parliament, the intelligence that it has gathered could be very useful in eroding the appeal of democracy worldwide.
Nick Taber
· 8 min read
How Sweden's Blind Altruism Is Harming Migrants
In terms of culture, Afghanistan is the opposite of Sweden.
Mustafa Panshiri
· 11 min read
Why the American Left Should Embrace Effective Altruism over Provincial Populism
Principle of impartiality, universalizability, equality, or whatever, we cannot discriminate against someone merely because he is far away from us.
Matt Johnson
· 9 min read
The Bolivarian God That Failed
The available scientific and statistical evidence (not to mention common sense) weighs strongly against belief in bodily resurrection from the dead.
Clifton Ross
· 21 min read
The Case Against a Second EU Referendum
If one referendum isn’t enough to resolve the matter, why would two be enough?
Madeline Grant
· 11 min read
The West's Betrayal of Iranian Dissidents
Iranians who yearn for democracy and an open, prosperous society at peace with the world are met with overwhelming indifference from the West’s media and political leaders.
Mariam Memarsadeghi
· 10 min read
Agnès Bun's Invincible Summer
Bun’s frankness about her own frailties lends her reporting the credibility and moral authority of honesty—the authenticity with which she writes closes the distance between journalist and reader, and her videos transport us into the world she covers.
Joe Hefferon
· 9 min read
The Case for a Second EU Referendum
The fate of the withdrawal agreement, and indeed the country at large, cannot depend on “he said, she said” accusations and counter-accusations.
Oliver Conolly
· 15 min read
Anxiety About Immigration is a Global Issue
It is time we started discussing global immigration in a more grown up way in the hope of coming up with a sustainable solution, rather than assuming the worst of each other and resorting to name-calling and selective moral outrage.
Remi Adekoya
· 6 min read