Thinking the Unthinkable
Appeasement and deterrence in a nuclear age.
Steve Salerno
· 14 min read
Politics
A collection of 503 posts
A Sanctuary No More
The strange afterlife of the Hong Kong democracy movement.
Aaron Sarin
· 11 min read
South African Lawfare at The Hague
Motions before any court—criminal or civil, national or international—contain references to hard evidence and a careful reading of legal precedent. The South African ICJ application has neither.
Norman J.W. Goda
· 13 min read
The Language of Soviet Propaganda
Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred.
Izabella Tabarovsky
· 14 min read
A Historian for Our Moment
Jeffrey Herf has made a scholarly commitment to document the words of Islamic Jew-hatred from their origins in Egypt and wartime Berlin. That has made him a lonely voice in the American professoriate.
Sol Stern
· 14 min read
China’s Weapons of Mass Destruction
The Communist Party is leaving behind mere nuclear deterrence, and accelerating towards a “first-strike” capability.
Aaron Sarin
· 8 min read
Lights Out in America
The cowardice at America’s most important liberal publications is damaging democracy.
John Lloyd
· 12 min read
The Vilnius Fiasco
There is a better way to protect Ukrainian sovereignty and security—and long-term Western interests—than NATO membership.
Adam Garfinkle
· 24 min read
How Effective Altruism Lost Its Way
It is time for the EA movement to rediscover humanism.
Matt Johnson
· 29 min read
A History of Feminist Antisemitism
The story of how activists and academics exchanged the struggle for universal female improvement for a politics of division and hatred.
Kara Jesella
· 21 min read
Misunderstanding the Fertility Crisis
The DINKs video isn’t shaping culture—it’s a cultural response to the rising opportunity cost of having children in free and prosperous societies.
Alex Nowrasteh
· 10 min read
Kissinger’s Folly
In its cold materialist outlook, Realism fails to recognize that every nation has a unique set of interests shaped by its own history, geography, and beliefs.
Brian Stewart
· 16 min read
The Genocidal Imagination
Philosophies of human cruelty, from Sade to October 7th.
Pascal Bruckner
· 21 min read
The Carbon-Neutral Dumpster Fire
RTÉ’s ludicrous environmentalist docudrama Tomorrow Tonight reflects the Irish state’s perverse commitment to a politics of self-harm.
Aidan Harte
· 9 min read
Is Venezuela About to Invade Guyana?
Analysts are skeptical and Guyana is nervous. But history teaches us to pay attention when an unpopular despot starts to speak the language of irredentism.
Juan P. Villasmil
· 8 min read