Poland is a Model U.S. Ally – Let’s Act Like It March 25, 2025
Earlier this month, Elon Musk inserted himself into another political debate about Russia’s war on Ukraine. In his comments, he noted his Starlink system as the “backbone” of the Ukrainian army, asserting that, “their entire frontline would collapse”...
History of Panama Canal and Chinese Interest in It March 25, 2025
A Chinese cultural center on the outskirts of Panama City was busy with people coming and going on a Wednesday afternoon in March, a reminder of China’s long history in the region. ...
Who’s Afraid of the China Select Committee? March 24, 2025
Recently, the House Select Committee on the Competition with the Chinese Communist Party released a video highlighting the whirlwind of bipartisan accomplishments and groundbreaking investigations they’ve undertaken. The CCP’s decades-long political ...
How Campus Activism on Israel-Palestine Warps Global Security Priorities March 24, 2025
Thanks to university-driven activism over the Israel-Palestine conflict, the war in Gaza has politically sidelined the West’s commitment to global security in other regions of the world.Israel-Palestine is one of the few conflicts that inspires activ...
Western Leaders Should Think Twice Before Removing Foreign Dictators March 22, 2025
Libya. Iraq. Syria. All were countries that suffered under the decades-long reign of brutal dictators. All have been swept up into anarchic spells of violence and terror after the West moved to overthrow those dictators. With last weekend’s news of t...
The Quid Pro Quo for Peace in Ukraine March 22, 2025
President Trump promises a rapprochement with Russia to end the war in Ukraine. Before we dismiss this as a pipedream, we should understand the options that Trump has in dealing with President Putin. What will be the quid pro quo for peace in Ukraine...
Trump’s Latin American Sticks Could End up Stuck in His Spokes March 22, 2025
He appears to be racking up wins through pure aggression, but history shows that these tactics lose juice over time. ...
America Should Talk to Hamas About Hostages March 21, 2025
Axios recently reported that Israel’s Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer “lashed out” at U.S. hostage envoy Adam Boehler in a “tense” phone call for negotiating with terror group Hamas for the return of a kidnapped U.S. citizen.In February, the U....
The Soft Face of Zimbabwe’s Dictatorship March 20, 2025
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is set to select a new president this week to succeed Thomas Bach. In a field of seven candidates, Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry, Africa's most decorated Olympian, could make history as the first woman to head t...
Trump Calls Canada to Action March 19, 2025
The U.S. is beating up on Canada.The friendship between the U.S. and Canada is historic but has fallen into an inexplicable confrontation. Bizarrely, President Trump has proposed that a fellow member of the powerful Group of Seven major economic powe...
Trump Should Resist Another America-Last War in the Middle East March 18, 2025
In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump made clear that he wants history to remember him as a “peacemaker and a unifier.” In his telling, “we will measure our success not only by the battles we win but also by the wars that we end—and perhap...
Is China Losing Africa to India? March 18, 2025
"Africa is entering a period where, for the first time in modern history, it will not be dominated by external powers," Gregory Copley, president of the International Strategic Studies Association, told Newsweek. "The influence of Europe, Russia, the...
Congress Should Pass the Antisemitism Awareness Act March 17, 2025
Much ink has already been spilled on the antisemitism crisis plaguing the United States. As the new Trump administration seeks to crack down on antisemitism on university campuses, Congress should finally pass legislation which treats the subject wit...
Ukraine’s Unsung Military Heroes Can Lead the Nation’s Path Forward March 17, 2025
The intricacies of the battlefields in the Ukraine-Russia war are numerous, as most military leaders and politicians continue to do nothing but complicate the situation. Coupled with a dysfunctional approach to conflict resolution, the issue of milit...
The Death of the UK Conservative Party March 15, 2025
If one does not follow British politics closely, it may be difficult to understand the near-total collapse of the Conservative Party. The oldest and most electorally successful political party in history is now facing possible extinction and near tot...
EU Defense Proposal Isn't a Course Correction March 14, 2025
It is not entirely without irony that the “The Most Successful Peace Project in the History of Mankind” is currently planning the continent’s most ambitious armaments programme since the end of World War Two. ...
Mineral Trade Did Not Cause Conflict in the Congo March 14, 2025
The surge in violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has some commentators blaming a familiar scapegoat: mineral trade and American technology companies whose products contain coltan and other “conflict minerals.” Eastern Congo is rich i...
Give Them a Voice: Many Gazans Desperately Want to Emigrate March 12, 2025
Last week, the United States and Israel rejected the Arab League proposal for reconstruction of Gaza. The Arab leaders’ plan was a response to President Trump's call to facilitate the migration of Gazans to countries of refuge following the devastati...
Ukraine Can’t Rely Just on ‘Security Guarantees’ March 11, 2025
The future is not always a foreign country. While many continue to wring their hands over the fate of Ukraine in the near term, the long-term challenges to sustaining a free and independent nation are likely far more significant. In the long history ...
The Road to Hell Is Paved With Russian Resets March 07, 2025
The US appears on the verge of yet another reset of relations with Moscow. History suggests it will lead to broken promises and more war. ...
NATO’s Future is Churchillian, Not Wilsonian March 05, 2025
An uncertain future threatens to overshadow celebrations of this April’s 75th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s founding. NATO has, without question, been one of the most successful military alliances in human history. Now, howe...
Broken Promises and Their Consequences March 04, 2025
More than three decades after the Cold War ended, the United States continues to treat Russia as an existential enemy rather than a potential partner. This hostility, deeply embedded in Washington’s foreign policy establishment, is not just ideologic...
Zelensky on Gilligan’s Island March 04, 2025
In the 1960’s television series Gilligan’s Island, Gilligan was always telling rivals they were both right. The joke was the impossibility of that outcome. By contrast, in the Trump-Zelenskyy showdown, both are right. And wrong.As often is true with ...
U.S.-India Must Become Closer With Trump and Modi February 15, 2025
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in Washington, D.C., his meeting with President Donald Trump holds the potential to reshape global geopolitics. This is not just another diplomatic visit—it is a historic moment to secure India’s rightful place...
The EU’s Holiday From History Is Over February 15, 2025
Trump's Ukraine plan has shone an unforgiving light on Europe’s dependence on America....
Trump Can and Should Save Ukraine February 14, 2025
Trump has been making headway on his campaign promises. From pardoning Jan. 6 rioters, to pulling out of the Paris climate agreement, to threatening tariffs on America’s largest trading partner (and toying with Canada’s sovereignty while he’s at it),...
Is Bangladesh the Next Failed State? February 13, 2025
Until her August 5, 2024 ouster, Sheikh Hasina, a two-time prime minister who had run Bangladesh for 20 of its 54-year history, was the closest to royalty as anyone in Bangladeshi politics. Not only was she the South Asian country’s longest-serving r...
Over Dead Bodies—Europe’s Endless History Wars February 12, 2025
Lessons of Trieste’s Foibe massacres: victims are victims, and perpetrators are perpetrators—and they should be recognized as such. ...
America Faces the New Eurasian Threat February 11, 2025
The post-Cold War era wasn’t supposed to end like this. The payoff from the free world’s victory in the superpower struggle was an imbalance of power more marked than anything since the Pax Romana. America’s goal, for the next quarter-century, was ...
To Stop Antisemitism, Find the Source February 10, 2025
People aren’t born antisemetic; they learn to hate Judaism from their surrounding culture. To counteract the rapid spread of antisemitism in the West, we must identify the source of its influence in our societies. Here are a few points to understand ...
Does Germany’s Future Belong to the AFD? February 10, 2025
“The firewall has fallen!” Alice Weidel, co-leader of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), posted on X, barely able to contain her excitement. The firewall (“Brandmauer”) refers to the agreement by Germany’s establishment parties never to...
The U.S. Cannot Ignore China's Desire for a Naval Base in South Africa February 08, 2025
The Trump administration’s Monroe Doctrine inspired pursuit of a sphere of hegemonic influence in the Western hemisphere faces the vulnerability that it has left the entry point to the South Atlantic, the literal backdoor to that sphere, unguarded. ...
How Trump Is Following Shinzo Abe’s Approach To Governing February 07, 2025
When Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba meets U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. on Friday, it will be hard to ignore comparisons to the many visits made by the late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during Trump’s first term. This is a tric...
Putin Has Little Incentive To Accept Trump’s Peace Plan February 06, 2025
President Trump has repeatedly vowed to end the war in Ukraine. However, neither Russia nor Ukraine appears willing to accept the leaked terms of Trump’s proposed peace plan. Regardless of the outcome of his coming talks with Putin and Zelensky, Trum...
Who Would Gain From Knauf’s Russian Exit? February 06, 2025
Knauf, the German construction giant with a substantial footprint in the U.S. market, has reportedly entered negotiations to sell its Russian assets to Gazprombank, a state-owned Russian financial institution that is sanctioned by the U.S. and the E....
Can a Critic of the Deep State Run the Deep State? February 03, 2025
Tulsi Gabbard has praised Edward Snowden, the most notorious intelligence leaker in U.S. history. Will the Senate confirm her to oversee 18 spy agencies?...
Egypt and the UAE's Hidden Battle for Sudan February 01, 2025
Despite shared history and mutual interests, Cairo and Abu Dhabi find themselves at odds in this brutal civil war ...
Holocaust Envy January 28, 2025
One of the most striking things in the aftermath of 7 October was the silence of the fascism-spotters. You know these people. ...
America’s Great Mistake: Pushing Russia and China Together January 28, 2025
The United States is the world’s most powerful nation, with the most advanced military and largest economy. It enjoys the most enviable geographic position of any great power in history, luxuriating in splendid near isolation with only two weak and p...
Tanzania Energy Summit: A Moment African Leaders Must Seize January 27, 2025
Later this month, African leaders and policymakers will gather at Dar es Salaam, Tanzania – East Africa’s most populous city – for the highly anticipated “Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit.”Mission 300 is an initiative to provide electricity to 300 mi...
The Georgian Opposition in 2025 January 27, 2025
For millions of Georgians, January 2025 has started much like how 2024 ended. For several months, the Georgian opposition and Georgian citizens have protested the outcome of the stolen 2024 parliamentary elections. They demanded a new election take p...
Forgotten Wars: The Haitian Crisis January 25, 2025
Over the past decade, following the devastating passage of Hurricane Matthew in 2016, Haiti has been experiencing an unprecedented socio-political and economic crisis. This crisis is characterized by widespread political instability and the substanti...
The Logic of Chaos in Trump’s Second-Term Foreign Policy January 24, 2025
Donald Trump’s recent calls to annex Greenland, take control of the Panama Canal, and even absorb Canada into the United States to expand America’s sphere of influence may sound like bluster, but they reflect a deliberate strategy rooted in uncertain...
Emperor Trump’s New Map January 24, 2025
When Vladimir Putin daydreams, he imagines himself saluting a phalanx as it goose-steps across central Kyiv. In Donald Trump’s version of the fantasy, he is triumphantly floating through the Panama Canal on a battleship. Both men see themselves recov...
Trump’s Mars Ambition Is Why America Rules the World January 21, 2025
Of all the striking things about Donald Trump’s second inaugural address, one line stuck out. Wedged between a threat to take over the Panama Canal and a panegyric to American history, the new president told his audience that “we will pursue our mani...
Britain’s Post-Imperial Delusion January 20, 2025
I only salvaged a few objects from my late dad’s home when it was cleared. But these included two that could be said to bookend his era of British history. The first was a barometer, presented to a Harrington ancestor “by his colleagues at HM Customs...
Trump Sees the Need for a Broader American Future January 09, 2025
Recently, NASA satellite imagery discovered the ruins of an old US nuclear weapons base, Camp Century, under the permafrost in Greenland, an abandoned relic of the Cold War. Its resurfacing is an apt metaphor for Donald Trump’s proposal to expand US ...
Armenian-Azerbaijani Relations in 2025 January 09, 2025
After several decades of violence and destruction, it appears the political climate in the Caucasus is changing. On December 31, the Russian Federation announced that it had withdrawn its soldiers from the Armenian-Iranian border. Russian troops had ...
Carter, Trump, and the Ghosts of 1980 January 08, 2025
The run-up to the 1981 presidential inauguration was complicated by the on-going captivity of 52 American hostages in Iran. Forty-four years later, the scenario is replaying itself as Hamas operatives continue to hold about 100 remaining Israeli host...
The Biggest Peacetime Crime & Cover-Up in British History January 08, 2025
The serial rape of thousands of English girls went on for many years. Few in power cared. Then Elon Musk started tweeting....
Transforming Russia from Spoiler to Pivot Player January 08, 2025
The invasion of Ukraine has underscored Russia’s enduring capacity to disrupt global stability. Yet, as the United States navigates an increasingly competitive geopolitical environment dominated by China’s ascendancy, we must recalibrate our strategy...
England’s Pakistani Rape Gangs Will Evade National Inquiry January 07, 2025
Labour leaves the case to local authorities with a history of shielding the perpetrators. ...
What Really Happened in Wuhan January 06, 2025
Five years ago, the Chinese authorities staged the deadliest cover-up in history....
How Trump Will Expose Europe’s Weakness January 06, 2025
They have a proud history. They run out-of-date business models. They are uncomfortable with the digital world. And they are getting older. Elements of the mainstream media and some of Europe’s largest countries have a lot in common. They find themse...
Unified Somalia: Cornerstone of Horn of Africa Stability and American Interests January 03, 2025
Throughout history, great nations have often been called upon to make difficult decisions that influence the fate of entire regions. Today, the United States faces such a moment in its policy towards Somalia. In an era of shifting alliances and heigh...
The End of the World’s Four Legacy Empires December 30, 2024
Some 2,000 years ago, an itinerant preacher, Saul of Tarsus, was writing to a wayward congregation in Corinth, Greece. Curiously enough, his words still capture the epochal change that may await us just over history’s horizon. “For now we see in a gl...
Time Is Running Out for Iran-U.S. Diplomacy December 30, 2024
Tensions between Iran and the United States are likely to be one of the first major foreign policy challenges for the incoming Trump administration. Tehran’s recent moves have brought Iran closer to developing a nuclear weapon than any point in the c...
2024 Was Truly the End of the ‘End of History’ December 30, 2024
Thirty-five years ago, as communism was collapsing, U.S. scholar Francis Fukuyama famously proclaimed the "end of history." His argument, later expanded in an iconic 1992 book, was that the ideological battles of the 20th century had concluded with t...
Remembrance of Things Past December 26, 2024
In December 1964 — 60 years ago — the holiday classic “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” was aired in the United States for the first time. The following year, “A Charlie Brown Christmas” was televised. One year later, in December 1966, “How the Grinch...
Downturn of Pax Americana and the Middle East December 26, 2024
This essay considers structural parallels between the collapse of the Congress System in nineteenth-century Europe and the downturn of the pax americana in the Middle East today. ...
In 2024, the War on Britain’s Past Became Unhinged December 23, 2024
Western cultural institutions have been waging a war on the past for several years now. They have turned national histories into sources of shame, damned key works in the Western canon as racist and pulled down historical monuments. 2024 has been no ...
The Fall of Assad: Four and a Half Implications December 20, 2024
History is not merely on the move again – as we have become used to saying in response to the great succession of extraordinary political and military events since about 2014-16, that are shattering the old rules and geopolitical status quo – but it ...
The Definitive Case for Ukraine’s Victory December 19, 2024
What comes after the politics of resentment, fear, and polarization? We’ve spent years diagnosing the ailments affecting Free Societies—our divisions and dysfunctions—but have come back empty-handed. We looked for solutions in policy debates and opin...
China’s New Social Contract December 19, 2024
Europe’s view of China has evolved rapidly in recent decades. What began as a broad lack of knowledge about the country gave way to curiosity about its history and culture. China’s economic rise further piqued Europeans’ interest, particularly after ...
A Troubling Trend for Democracy in Asia December 16, 2024
In 2024, the highest number of people voted in recorded history. But in Asia, where democracy has been on a decade-plus-long regression, elections did not mean progress. ...
The Paris Accords As “Climate Insurance”—Unaffordable and Unnecessary December 13, 2024
[The following is based on remarks delivered by Koonin and Mills at an MIT Free Speech Alliance debate, which can be viewed here.]The climate change debate continues to rage. Though the science remains “unsettled,” what does seem settled is that Pres...
Jolani Has Learnt From History December 12, 2024
capital, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, head of the Islamic militant group, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), might have been expected to lay waste to all the institutions which had helped to keep the repressive Assad dynasty in power for 53 years, but instead h...
America Needs To Stay Out of Syria December 10, 2024
The regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria has fallen. Assad was a loathsome dictator with a long history of bloody repression....
Syria's Assad Falls: Could Iran Be Next? December 09, 2024
On Sunday morning, a lightning offensive by Syrian rebels ended with the dramatic fall of Damascus, marking the collapse of Bashar al-Assad's regime after 13 years of devastating civil war. One of the most consequential moments in the Middle East's r...
What Was South Korean President Thinking? December 06, 2024
Yoon Suk Yeol, a former top prosecutor and political novice who won the closest South Korean presidential election in the country's history, was never a particularly popular man. ...
Amsterdam Attacks are Bad Press for the Pro-Palestine Movement December 05, 2024
It’s been nearly three weeks, and the media is still ablaze with politicians and journalists trying to make sense of the Amsterdam pogrom. Many of them are trying to minimize a calculated, violent attack against Israelis and Jews by providing context...
Neglected Africa, Russia’s Sustainability, History & Taiwan December 05, 2024
In a special “mailbag” episode, Hoover senior fellows Sir Niall Ferguson, John Cochrane, and H.R. McMaster answer audience questions ranging from current geopolitics quandaries and viable economic models to career and parenting advice, plus their per...
China’s Port in Peru Marks Dangerous New Era November 27, 2024
Chinese president Xi Jinping on Thursday celebrated the opening of a new port that his state-owned shipping company Cosco has built in the Peruvian fishing village of Chancay.The opening of the port marks the dawn of a dangerous new era in which Chin...
Is Turkey’s Big Break With Israel for Real? November 26, 2024
Depends on who you ask, but there is a history here that may be difficult to escape ...
The ICC Has Emboldened Netanyahu November 26, 2024
International law has spoken once again. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, are now wanted men. The International Criminal Court has, for the first time in its 22-year history, issued arrest wa...
Peace to Prosperity is America First in the Middle East November 26, 2024
A Fortuitous Confluence of EventsDonald Trump’s foreign policy team is shaping up to be great news for Israel, the West, and the proper definition of America First. The erosion of American interests under the Biden Administration means that Trump wi...
The Democrats Must Radically Rethink Foreign Policy November 21, 2024
In domestic political terms, the foreign policy of the Biden administration has proved almost unimaginably successful – for Donald Trump, whom it enabled to run for president as the representative, however mendaciously so, of foreign policy restraint...
The Short War Temptation November 19, 2024
It is now a truism that political leaders don’t initiate wars with the expectation that they will be protracted contests of attrition. It is an interesting counter-factual conjecture whether Russian President Vladimir Putin, if he had a crystal ball ...
Western Leaders Must Abandon Cultural Imperialism in Middle East Policy November 18, 2024
Having neutralized key leaders of Iran’s proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah, Israel appears to be preparing its long-anticipated retaliation against the Islamic Republic itself. Although currently limiting attacks to military assets, many are still demandi...
Why the U.S. Should Rethink Its Arms Transfer to Israel November 16, 2024
Following retaliatory strikes on Iran, Israel has entered a new phase of escalation, marking a direct confrontation with Teheran. The intensifying situation not only risks further destabilizing the region, but also forces the U.S. to become increasi...
Russian Terrorists and Their ‘Progressive’ Allies November 14, 2024
Modern alliance between bourgeois progressivism and political violence was born in 19th-century Russia. It didn’t end well. ...
Assassination Attempt on Uzbekistan’s Komil Allamjonov Evokes Echoes of the Great Game November 13, 2024
The cracks and fissures of Central Asia’s 19th-century Great Game power struggles and political instability remain hidden just below the surface of the region’s deserts. Occasionally, there is a small shift, but enough to allow long-forgotten problem...
The Biggest Transatlantic Loser from Trump’s Election: Britain’s Labour Government November 07, 2024
“Congratulations President-elect Donald Trump on your historic election,” British prime minister Sir Keir Starmer posted on X at 3:21am ET on Wednesday. The best that can be said about this tepid concession is that Starmer got his concession in befor...
How Trump Could Temper Tensions in the Middle East November 07, 2024
One of Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign ads was aimed at Jewish voters. Three stereotypical New York bubbes are kvetching about the state of the world. ‘Israel’s under attack. Anti-Semitism like I never thought I would see.’ One says: ‘Oy vey… You know T...
The Next U.S. President Will Find a Europe Much Changed From Four Years Ago November 05, 2024
If Donald Trump wins the election on Tuesday, he will encounter a Europe far different from the one he knew during his first term both in terms of personnel and policy.A second Trump term could very well be a baptism by fire for new NATO Secretary Ge...
Algeria: From Anti-Colonial Beacon to Modern Success November 01, 2024
On November 1, 1954, Algeria ignited a revolution that became a defining moment in the global fight against colonialism. The revolution, spearheaded by the National Liberation Front (FLN), was not only a struggle for national independence from French...
Trump 2.0 Would Be No Easy Ride for Vladimir Putin November 01, 2024
Those who speculate Trump would go soft on Russian leader ignore history and misread the potential for an escalatory future ...
A Test Between Europe and Russia in Georgia October 12, 2024
This month, millions of Georgias will gather to vote in the parliamentary elections. The stakes could not be higher.Over the past few years, the ruling Georgian Dream party has started to backslide on anticorruption reforms. Members of the ruling par...
The East-West Battle for Serbia October 12, 2024
Serbia, like Yugoslavia, before it, has long been a major prize in the East-West struggle for ascendancy in Europe. In this East-West rivalry there is no way to stop foreign influences from entering Serbia, at least not in the short-term, especially...
The Coming Polar War October 11, 2024
For most of human history, the North and South Poles were literally and metaphorically at the ends of the Earth, visited only by hardy adventurers like Amundsen or Scott. Now, however, military and commercial ships are steaming to these distant latit...
Armenia’s Struggle Against Radicalization October 09, 2024
Last month, Armenia arrested several individuals accused of recruiting others to stage a coup in the country. The group has a history of recruiting Armenian citizens as foreign fighters in Russia’s war in Ukraine....
Taiwan Needs To Start Taking Its Defense Seriously October 08, 2024
It is no secret that China would like to get out of the first island chain into which it has been hemmed in for decades, or arguably even longer. They have long claimed much of the South China Sea, which includes territory claimed by multiple other s...
Xi Knows What It Takes To Sustain China’s Rally October 07, 2024
Short-lived 2015 rally showed liquidity is no substitute for supply-side reform. Will Xi’s team repeat history or correct past mistakes? ...
Georgian Dream or Georgian Nightmare? October 04, 2024
Known during the Soviet era as Lenin Square, Freedom Square, which appears to the eye more like ‘Freedom Roundabout’, is at the heart of the bustling city of Tbilisi, the capital of the Caucasus nation of Georgia. Historians will also be aware that i...
The Lost Art of Understanding the Enemy October 03, 2024
U.S. has a long history of missing adversary cues that if understood and processed could have prevented or shortened many a conflict ...
Israel’s Devastation of Hezbollah Puts Iran in a Corner October 02, 2024
The Israeli airstrike that killed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah deep in his Beirut bunker was the culmination of one of the most lethally effective, targeted military campaigns in modern history. Over a few days, and in some extraordinarily creati...
Israel Should Hit Iran Where It Hurts October 01, 2024
Through its early history — but not for the last four decades and more — the main threats to Israel’s security came from its Arab neighbours. That resulted in several wars against Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq. ...
Israel Has a History of Failed Invasions of Lebanon October 01, 2024
Following a massive bombardment of Lebanon, Israel has begun a land invasion of its northern neighbor. ...
Forgotten Wars: The Essequibo Crisis September 12, 2024
This is part III of a series of articles on lesser known conflicts throughout the world. Part I highlighted The Nagorno-Karabakh Crisis and Part II covered The Civil War in Myanmar.The historical roots of the conflict between Venezuela and Guyana go...
Learning Civics from History September 11, 2024
Civic thought and leadership institutes will thrive if they promote strong scholarship and courses in traditional fields the mainstream academy sleights....
For Eastern Europe, 9/11 Did Not ‘Restart’ History September 11, 2024
The notion that history briefly ended in the 1990s was always a Western fantasy....
The North American Bloc, If We Can Keep It September 11, 2024
Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), is a history guy....
‘Ending in Rabat’: France's Moroccan Pivot and the Future of Western Sahara September 09, 2024
A saying oft repeated in discussions of French diplomacy stipulates that “a French president's mandate begins in Algiers and ends in Rabat.” This axiom has proven strikingly prescient. Consider the letter French President Emmanuel Macron recently sen...
Where Is American Empire’s Fall Taking Us All? September 09, 2024
History shows one empire often supplants another but a rising China could seek a genuinely multipolar order instead ...
The Return of Anti-History September 06, 2024
According to Tucker Carlson, Darryl Cooper is “the most important popular historian working in the United States today.” I had never heard of Cooper until this week and was none the wiser when I went to look for his books. There are none. ...
Beijing’s Play for Taiwan’s Young Voices Intensifies September 05, 2024
In early June, Taiwanese celebrities and influencers offered a rare window into a little understood way that China is seeking to exert influence on the island’s information space. Within the span of just a few days, multiple singers, actors, and YouT...
How Syria Broke Turkey September 05, 2024
In July, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said he would be open to hosting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a visit to Turkey. Normalization will not come easily or soon, but Erdoğan’s push for rapprochement is in itself remarkable. Given t...
What the West Can Learn From 1968 September 04, 2024
The world seems to be in chaos – but we have been here before ...
Bukele’s Lesson on the ‘Great Man Theory’ of History September 03, 2024
The most important sentence in the Nayib Bukele profile and interview in TIME magazine is a simple question to the interviewer: “How can I ask the Salvadoran people, who often have modest meals like beans and tortillas for dinner, to pay taxes to pro...
The Case for a More Strategic U.S. Foreign Policy August 15, 2024
As the nation focuses on the coming presidential election, the foreign policy landscape surrounding the United States is in disarray. Israel is bracing for a retaliatory Iranian attack following their killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeah...
Taiwan Needs Unambiguous Protection, Now August 15, 2024
History is replete with examples of civil wars, wars of aggression and political revolutions altering power relations and sovereignty over once-stable states and territories. ...
Did the Administrative State Crush British Tories? August 12, 2024
As Republicans hope for victory in November, recent events in Britain remind us how quickly success can turn into ashes. The British Conservative party experienced a historical meltdown in the July 4 election, losing two-thirds of its seats in the bi...
A Different Economic Strategy for India August 10, 2024
The national election in India this past spring produced a shocking outcome. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were widely expected to win a third five-year term and increase their majority in the Indian parliament. ...
Kenya and the African Continent Need Greater U.S. Attention August 08, 2024
Africa has never truly been a strategic geopolitical focus for the United States. Despite the continent’s population of 1.4 billion people, which is predicted to double by 2050, and having some of the fastest-growing economies in the world, the U.S. ...
Time To Fix the Foreign Service August 07, 2024
Diplomacy is the art of obtaining foreign policy objectives through skillful negotiation rather than military force. It is often more effective and always less costly in terms of both blood and money than going to war. History provides many examples ...
Why Is Japan’s Stock Market Crashing? August 05, 2024
It is, to use Trumpian language, a bloodbath. The Tokyo stock market has plunged 12.4% today, compounding the misery of last Friday when Tokyo’s financial markets suffered a dramatic plunge of over 2000 points (the second biggest drop in history) in ...
The World Court’s One-Sided Opinion Will Not Advance Peace August 03, 2024
Last Friday, the International Court of Justice in The Hague published its Advisory Opinion on “the Legal Consequences Arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory including East Jerusalem.”Seated in the pre...
Armenia and Azerbaijan Hold Peace Talks July 26, 2024
Following a tense spring, it appears that Armenian and Azerbaijani officials are making progress on a peace agreement. Earlier this month, foreign ministers from both countries gathered in Washington to discuss the peace process in further detail. U....
What a Kamala Harris Foreign Policy Could Look Like July 22, 2024
If elected president in November, Vice President Kamala Harris would enter office with a foreign policy record defined by her tenure as a senator during Donald Trump’s presidency, and her time as the No. 2 to one of the most experienced presidents on...
Houthis Only Emboldened by Israeli Attacks July 22, 2024
Tel Aviv bombed a vital Yemeni port in retribution for an earlier militant drone strike, but if history holds, it won't matter ...
Civilization-Ending Wars July 19, 2024
Tragedy, not hope, is the best guide for understanding the fate of nations....
J.D. Vance: Foreign Policy Realist July 18, 2024
“In a private session Tuesday with the International Republican Institute, an internationalist group founded in the Reagan era, [Mitch] McConnell walked attendees through history, reminding them that the party has long had brushes with isolationism,”...
Communist China: A Long March To Collapse? July 16, 2024
Only those ignorant of its history think Communist China will survive forever. It won’t. ...
Truss: Tories Lost Because They Were Too Left-Wing July 15, 2024
It took 10 days for a senior Tory to write about the worst general election result in the party’s history. Unfortunately, that senior Tory is Liz Truss. ...
At 75, NATO Has Forgotten Its Purpose July 15, 2024
The 75th anniversary of NATO is a momentous occasion, marking one of the longest-lived international partnerships in history. Yet its Washington Summit showed that the Atlantic alliance has forgotten its purpose. ...
It's Time to End Hezbollah's Decades of Impunity July 15, 2024
At 9:53 am on July 18, 1994, a suicide bomber drove a van packed with explosives into the front gates of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA), a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. It was the deadliest terror attack in Argentina's hi...
The Problems Still Plaguing NATO July 13, 2024
This week’s NATO summit in Washington is, by any measure, a grand affair, full of the pomp and ceremony befitting the bloc’s 75th anniversary. It also offers up a useful opportunity to reflect on the state of the most successful military alliance in ...
Sunak Deserves a Long Tory Leadership Contest July 13, 2024
Do the Tories never learn? The party has suffered its worst election defeat in its 190-year history and yet still the infighting continues. I appreciate that it’s only a week on from Tory-geddon, but the Conservatives’ only priority right now should ...
The Past Is a Foreign Country July 12, 2024
We should not judge the past – or other cultures – by our own modern standards....
The West Is Misreading China July 12, 2024
In spite of the abundance of opinions voiced almost daily by foreign policy experts and international relations academics there is no consensus about China’s strategic and tactical motivations regarding the South China Sea (SCS). But if one considers...
NATO Is Starting To Show Its Age. Time for Reform July 11, 2024
Starting Tuesday, the grand halls of Washington are hosting a gathering of NATO leaders, marking the 75th anniversary of the most consequential military alliance in modern history. ...
The Roots of World War III July 11, 2024
The American diplomat and historian George F. Kennan called the First World War the “seminal catastrophe” of the 20th century, and he wrote two lengthy books on the events that led to the outbreak of that war: The Decline of Bismarck’s European Order...
The Personnel Costs of Russia’s War July 09, 2024
Throughout its history, Russia has rarely cared for its soldiers, on or off the battlefield. The Kremlin’s current attempt to do right by its veterans looks to be simultaneously insufficient and unaffordable, destined to leave behind armies of broken...
Can Starmer Save Britain? July 06, 2024
Although the polls had been predicting it for many months, the result of the United Kingdom’s July 4 general election was nonetheless stunning. This was the worst performance in the 190-year history of the Conservative Party. ...
The Point of NATO Is Peace, Not Endless War July 06, 2024
NATO is approaching a watershed moment. It is worth remembering that the most successful military alliance in world history started as a peace project, and its future success depends on its ability to maintain peace. ...
Antisemitism on the Rise Down Under July 06, 2024
Australian Jews are targeted by boycotts, harassment, and intimidation. Is this the end of a golden age, or just a blip in a long and overwhelmingly positive history? ...
Taiwan Seeks to Escape Its History July 06, 2024
Taiwan’s shift toward more explicitly nationalist politics has exposed serious contradictions in U.S. China policy. ...
Sunak’s Bet Ends in Tory Party’s Worst Defeat in History July 05, 2024
As Rishi Sunak stood in the pouring rain outside 10 Downing Street to announce a snap election that even his own campaign chief didn’t want to call he could only have guessed at what he was unleashing. ...
Herrings and the Courts July 01, 2024
Devoted readers will recall what I wrote in my most recent book, “The Storm Before the Calm,” and in subsequent articles here on GPF: that the United States operates on two cycles, one a 50-year socio-economic cycle, the other an 80-year institutiona...
Russia Is Not Bluffing July 01, 2024
History shows that the assumption an opponent is bluffing about its red lines can lead to costly errors. ...
America’s Suez Moment June 27, 2024
History, as the familiar saying goes, does not repeat, but often rhymes. Do the crises in Gaza and Ukraine impose a “Suez Moment” on the United States – the events of 2022-24, a refrain to 1956-57?October 1956 featured two major international crises....
The Biggest Electoral Mistake in British History June 26, 2024
When the history of this election campaign comes to be written, one question will perplex the compilers more than any other: why now?...
China Needs To Adjust Its Approach Toward SpaceX June 26, 2024
The fourth test flight of Starship saw the rocket booster smoothly splash down in the Gulf of Mexico while the upper spacecraft achieved a controlled reentry, fulfilling key mission objectives. According to the design parameters, Starship will be cap...
Déjà Vu All Over Again? Appeasement Then And Now June 21, 2024
“Munich” again? Hold the angst. Historical analogies are treacherous because “like” is not “same.” Still, the disastrous appeasement of the Thirties does yield insights into our era. Hitler et al. are safely buried. But today, a new cast of character...
A National Climate Action Plan June 21, 2024
While April and May are usually the hottest months in many countries in Southeast Asia, hundreds of millions of people are now suffering in South Asia from an exceptionally intense heat wave that has killed hundreds. One expert has already called it ...
Joe Biden Ignores History in the Middle East June 19, 2024
The Middle East is most secure, stable, and peaceful when the United States works in tandem with Egypt and Saudi Arabia. What was true in the 1980s remains true today. Restoring partnership requires Washington respect its allies and their interests, ...
A Threat Like No Other: Russia-North Korea June 19, 2024
The summit meeting between Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un presents the greatest threat to U.S. national security since the Korean War. This relationship, deep in history and reinvigorated by the war in Ukraine, u...
The Death of the Tory Party Is Long Overdue June 15, 2024
How the most successful political party in history became a rootless, pointless husk....
The Enduring Importance of Supporting NATO June 14, 2024
Standing on the sands of Omaha Beach last week, observing the 80th anniversary of D-Day, I was struck by the weight of history around me....
House Signals a Tough Line for the United Nations if Trump Wins in November June 11, 2024
When Congress and the White House enact a spending bill for foreign operations, will it contain the sharp cuts in funding for the United Nations and related entities found in the version a House subcommittee passed last week? Highly unlikely. Yet tha...
Europe’s Era of Chaos Is Only Just Beginning June 10, 2024
Most great political revolutions in history take years, even more than a decade to unfold fully. At the time, those living through these events perceive them as just “one damn thing after another,” hardly expecting where it will all lead. ...
Myths and Political Realities of the ‘Migration Wars’ June 08, 2024
Immigration is often portrayed as a grassroots phenomenon driven mostly by the spontaneous human agency of individuals in the pursuit of better opportunities and higher living standards. It is believed that the involvement of states in the governance...
Don’t Expect an Indo-Pacific NATO Anytime Soon June 06, 2024
China’s aggression is sparking new talk of an Asian NATO but region’s history is littered with failed collective security efforts ...
D-Day at 80: The Invasion That Changed the Course of WWII June 06, 2024
The legendary amphibious landing of World War II was the result of multiple years of intense planning and argument by the American and British militaries. It changed the course of history forever. ...
Will Mexico Having a Jewish President Fix Antisemitism in Latin America? June 05, 2024
In 2008, analysts viewed the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States as a sign of the U.S. entering a “post-racial” era, after centuries of dealing with slavery and anti-black laws and discrimination. In 2006, Bolivia, one of the w...
UK Tories Are Losing Because They Rejected Populism June 03, 2024
Britain’s Conservative Party is on track for its worst election result in its history, completely undoing their massive 2019 win. If that does happen, it will be because the party turned its back on the populist blue-collar voters who made their triu...
It’s Not the 1930s, but It’s Starting To Rhyme June 01, 2024
Surging tariff wars, a tripling of trade barriers since 2019. A major power conflict in the heart of Europe aided vicariously by the U.S. and NATO. ...
Forgotten Wars: The Nagorno-Karabakh Crisis May 30, 2024
After the intense conflict of 2020 in which Azerbaijan recovered much of the territory lost in the 1990s, the region is still the scene of clashes and tensions. Despite the ceasefire brokered by Russia, a lasting peace still seems far off.During 2023...
The Enormous Stakes of India’s Election May 28, 2024
The 2024 Indian election is the largest in world history: Nearly 1 billion people are eligible to cast their ballots. Administering such a giant election is an immensely difficult task, especially in a middle-income country where poverty remains all ...
The Island at the End of History May 23, 2024
On Sunday, President Luis Abinader secured reelection in the Dominican Republic with a thumping 58 percent of the vote. Along with his Mexican counterpart Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Abinader enjoys some of the highest approval ratings in the democr...
History’s Most Consequential Sudden Deaths May 22, 2024
The unexpected demise of Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi, stoned to death with a mountain by the grace of a US-made helicopter, has opened up speculation as to the political changes that this act of divine justice might trigger in the murderous Islami...
Reflections on Revolutions May 21, 2024
Fareed Zakaria offers some useful, Burkean insights on how to navigate today's uncertainties, but his recommendations are unhelpfully vague. ...
History, Humility, and Wishful Thinking May 18, 2024
Drawing on his extensive experience as a historian and diplomat, Philip Zelikow warns that the United States faces an exceptionally volatile time in global politics and that the period of maximum danger might be in the next one to three years. He hig...
History's First Draft May 17, 2024
A new book by Michael Kimmage envisions the Ukraine-Russia conflict as a collision of world views. ...
Rethinking Western Strategies Towards Russia May 16, 2024
For more than a couple of decades, the Russian Federation has been in the process of reasserting itself as a telluric Eurasian force to be reckoned with, particularly in the post-Soviet space. Although contemporary Russia is far behind the USSR in se...
Taiwan Is the New Berlin May 15, 2024
American histories of the Cold War tend to depict the Berlin Wall as a symbol of the era’s worst depredations. ...
Why Biden’s Iran Sanctions Waivers Are Futile May 13, 2024
The Islamic Republic also has a history of diverting resources intended for humanitarian purposes. ...
Educators Develop Students’ Soft Skills for An Uncertain Future May 09, 2024
Socrates said that education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. To truly light a fire takes extraordinary people, those who take educating beyond teaching, who give students the ability to lift themselves above their circumstanc...
Norway Ends Its Holiday From History May 07, 2024
The country has grasped the scale of the Russian threat and is now setting an example. ...
Embracing History and Mortality in Eastern Poland May 03, 2024
To traverse eastern Poland is to feel remarkably close to a history that is deeply interwoven with the present while also bearing witness to Europe’s mortality....
A New Cold War? WWIII? The Age of Confusion May 03, 2024
In history, as in romance, beginnings matter – so what we do now will be crucial in shaping the future...
Armenia Concedes Defeat to Azerbaijan May 03, 2024
After three decades of fighting, it appears the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has finally come to an end. On April 28, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev spoke with one another on a phone call discussing a fort...
Why Israel Should Declare a Unilateral Cease-Fire in Gaza May 01, 2024
Until last month, the war between Iran and Israel was largely fought in the shadows. The Iranians decided to take it out of the shadows, openly attacking Israeli territory directly, from Iranian soil, for the first time in the Islamic Republic’s hist...
Odysseus at Home May 01, 2024
This is a near-author’s cut of an essay entitled “Odysseus Lost” that was published by Chronicles on January 26, 2024. The Chronicles version, which benefited from professional editing ......
Selling out to Saudi Arabia Is Blood Diplomacy April 30, 2024
Recent reports suggest that the Biden Administration is aiming for the Middle East deal of the century: normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, in exchange for Israeli promises towards Palestinian statehood and significant concess...
Trump’s British ‘Human Hand Grenade’ April 29, 2024
Liz Truss, the shortest-serving prime minister in British history, takes snickers about her quick stint at #10 Downing Street in stride. ...
Russia’s Ugly Prisoner Exchanges April 29, 2024
Boris Semenov (not his real name) from Bucha, Ukraine had an experience at the hands of the Russian invaders that’s so foreign to us in the West that it’s hard for us to process. Still, his story is worth knowing for the insight it gives into what Uk...
Israel’s Forever War April 25, 2024
To Israelis, October 7, 2023, is the worst day in their country’s 75-year history. ...
America's Empire Is Still Strong April 20, 2024
The United States of America is an empire of might and of influence. There has never been anything like it for scale and global impact, even if history has yet to render its verdict on America's endurance. U.S. troops are present on six of the seven ...
The Israel-Gaza War Has Changed Everything April 20, 2024
Analysts, journalists and strategists are all required to ignore the near-impossibility of truly understanding a war as it unfolds. Failing to do so would send us into a morass of self-doubt, and our work would become a useless succession of Zen-like...
Challenges Are To Come for the West’s Air Defense April 20, 2024
It was the largest combined drone and missile attack in world history. On Sunday Iran launched a huge air strike package of roughly 320 munitions against Israel, consisting of some 170 drones, 120 intermediate-range ballistic missiles and 30 cruise m...
Iran Needs Another Revolution April 19, 2024
Iran’s attack on Israel last week was not a surprise, nor did it inflict significant damage. It was nonetheless a paradigm shift. This was the first long-distance, large-scale drone strike in history — and the first time Iran attacked Israel directly...
NATO: Now More Than Ever April 19, 2024
On April 9, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) marked its 75th anniversary. The Western Alliance, formed in the aftermath of World War II, began with 12 nations joined to deter the Soviet Union, stabilize Europe, and promote regional integ...
UN Resolution on the Balkans Would Be a Mistake April 17, 2024
A draft U.N. resolution, proposed by Germany, Rwanda and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and supported by a group of countries including the U.S., France and Türkiye, that declares July 11 the International Day of Reflection and Remembrance of the 1995 Srebr...
History Makes Clear the Risks of Appeasing Putin April 17, 2024
In mid-February, Ukrainian forces were forced to withdraw from Avdiivka, signaling the first major Russian victory since the capture of Bakhmut in May 2023. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has finally agreed to put a bill on the floor that would pr...
Europe’s War Jitters April 16, 2024
Mark Twain is often quoted as saying, ‘History may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.’ He might have added that when history does rhyme, the results are often disastrous. ...
The World Missed the Warning of 2014 Ukraine Invasion April 15, 2024
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, deserves a place in history books for being more widely anticipated in Washington than in Moscow — or even Kyiv. ...
Migration Pact Will Only Deepen EU Divisions April 12, 2024
Roberta Metsola, the President of the European Parliament, was in a celebratory mood following the successful passage of the EU’s asylum and migration pact on Wednesday. “History made,” she declared, adding that the new legislation will create “a bal...
The End of Secular India April 12, 2024
On April 19, India will kick off the largest election in history. Over 44 days, more than 500 million people—or 65 percent of the country’s nearly one billion eligible voters—are expected to participate. ...
Kasparov: “Dictators Tell the Truth About What They Plan for the Future” April 10, 2024
Garry Kasparov is famous both for his 20-year reign as the world’s best chess player and for Putin’s recent declaration that he’s a terrorist. However, Kasparov deserves even more recognition for a prediction he made over two decades ago in The Wall ...
Democracy Won in Senegal April 05, 2024
2024 is the biggest global election year in history and the future of democracy is on every ballot. But amid an international backsliding in democratic norms, including in countries with a longer history of democracy like India, Senegal’s election la...
New Report Sheds Light on Trade Loopholes That Weaken U.S. April 03, 2024
The Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the CCP, headed by Congressman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), released a report on how the U.S. can combat the Chinese Communist Party’...
Argentina’s Milei Is Confronts the History of the Falklands War April 03, 2024
For decades, Argentines could count on coming together April 2 around a steadfast claim to the islands they know as the Malvinas and — at least until recently — expect their president to share that conviction....
Philippines Hopes U.S. History Won’t Repeat Itself, Again April 02, 2024
Marcos to meet same officials who left Manila in the lurch amid China’s South China Sea aggression during the Obama administration ...
New Details of Afghanistan Chaos April 01, 2024
New testimony from those who witnessed firsthand the confusion and chaos of the Afghanistan withdrawal further contradicts President Biden’s assertion that the hurried and violent end to the longest war in American history was an “extraordinary succe...
The Daring Raid On Barings That Has Shaken $1.7tn Private Credit Market March 20, 2024
In September last year real estate veteran Paul Weightman started hiring for a new fund manager designed, in the 62-year-old’s own words, to “redefine the private credit landscape”. For months the goal looked like a tall order: early this year the co...
The Realignment Of The Middle East March 20, 2024
In the Middle East, reality can change in the blink of an eye. Misconceptions and misrepresentations that dominate the public discourse have it that the region has been embroiled in war since time immemorial. Still, even its most recognizable conflic...
How Should Israel Bring To Justice The Perpetrators Of 10/7? March 18, 2024
Hamas’ unprecedented raid on southern Israel has prompted a legal predicament: How does a country scarred by the deadliest attack in its history bring the perpetrators to justice?Israel is holding hundreds of Palestinians from Gaza accused of taking ...
The Enduring Problem With Proxies March 12, 2024
In a recent public announcement of little surprise, except perhaps to the Iran-obsessed punditry and political classes in Washington and Tel Aviv, U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Iran does not have total control over the proxy groups it sup...
Can Two Bad Ideas in Israel and Hamas Be Killed? March 07, 2024
Israel’s attempt to “destroy” Hamas is often derided that you can kill its leaders and fighters and blow up its tunnel network, but that “you can’t kill an idea”.This seems an obvious proposition, but it is false. Or rather, in the abstract no idea e...
Guatemala Must Resist Beijing’s Bullying March 06, 2024
“Guatemala,” according to Reuters, “is considering reaching out to develop formal trade ties with China.” We know what happens next. The Chinese Communist Party will do what it always does and attempt to condition trade relations on Guatemala’s denia...
Canada Is Losing the Plot on Border Security March 05, 2024
Finally. After 25,000 Mexicans applied for asylum in Canada last year, thousands of attempts to illegally cross into the United States on the northeast border, and millions of dollars spent on security and aid, the Canadian government has decided to ...
Longing for Auschwitz March 04, 2024
The ultimate aims of the war against the Jewish state would rival the worst horrors of our history ...
Putin’s Warped Idea of Russian History March 01, 2024
February 24 marked two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the start of a bloody war that changed the borders of Europe for the first time since World War II. ...
Global Institutions Struggling To Contain Tensions February 15, 2024
The global institutional architecture designed in the aftermath of World War II to ensure that disaster was never repeated is showing its age. ...
Western Europe Can’t Ignore Its Eastern Allies February 10, 2024
It is a truism of diplomatic history that if a country or alliance is to reach a compromise peace with an adversary, it must first feel sufficiently secure itself. Hence, senior diplomat Thomas Graham’s suggestion that in order to manage this critica...
Peter Zeihan On U.S. Future Role In The Middle East February 09, 2024
Peter Zeihan explains the modern history of the Middle East and United States involvement in the region. Zeihan states why it is difficult for the United States to withdraw from the region and it struggles to resolve the growing number of conflicts....
Three Men Are Holding the Levant Hostage February 08, 2024
Nineteenth-century Scottish essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle believed that “The History of the world is but the Biography of great men.” But it isn’t always great men who can shift events. And the future of the Levant is currently in the hands o...
Behind Bukele’s Revolution February 06, 2024
On Sunday around 7 p.m., El Salvador’s 42-year-old president, Nayib Bukele, announced on X, the app formerly known as Twitter, that he and his party, Nuevas Ideas, had set “a record in the history of the democratic world,” winning more than 85 percen...
Russia Cannot Be Trusted for a Ceasefire in Ukraine February 05, 2024
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine approaches its second anniversary, several international observers are beginning to question how the war will end....
The West's Self Hatred Has Led to a Recruitment Crisis January 31, 2024
Faced with the threat of war with Russia, tens of thousands of Britain’s citizens must be trained as a “citizen army,” according to General Sir Patrick Sanders, chief of the general staff. ...
Defining Ukraine’s National Identity January 30, 2024
As Putin attempts to erase Ukrainian identity, keeping Ukraine’s unique history and culture alive has become ever more important. On this episode of The Eastern Front, Giselle, Dalibor, and Iulia speak with Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel, associate pr...
The Western Fight Against the Tide of History January 29, 2024
Catastrophic policy may be blamed on a lack of self-awareness, or the belief that the world sees the West the way the West sees itself ...
Fishing For the Fourth Institutional Cycle January 24, 2024
I have written a great deal about socio-economic cycles but far less on institutional cycles, specifically how the fourth institutional cycle in American history will emerge. But now some issues in the new cycle are beginning to take shape – revealin...
Niall Ferguson On The Treason Of Intellectuals January 24, 2024
Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University. In this interview, Ferguson discusses his s...
The One Element Keeping Ukraine From Total Defeat January 18, 2024
The tired truism that journalism is history’s first draft does not quite apply to covering war—or not usually, in any case. In those battles that I’ve fought in and those that I’ve reported on, as soon as the gunfire ebbs and soldiers start passing o...
America’s Allies Shouldn’t Side With Hamas January 16, 2024
U.S. officials have expressed support for Israel’s position that a ceasefire wherein Hamas remains in control of the Gaza Strip is not tenable but many of the United States’ traditional allies appear to disagree. Canadian government officials have ma...
Israel’s Motion Offense January 16, 2024
It was not easy to read a book about Israel’s military excellence in the wake of the worst military and intelligence failure in the country’s history since the 1973 Yom Kippur War. It was also hard to ignore that the book was published by Harvard Uni...
Is Poland Slipping Into a Constitutional Crisis? January 11, 2024
Since the new coalition government took power in December, Poland’s institutions have turned into vicious political battlegrounds on a level unprecedented in the country’s modern history. ...
Countering Historical Myths of the Palestinian Experience January 06, 2024
Much of the left’s animus towards Israel is based on a false history of the 1948 War: the uprooting of a longstanding Arab population, quelching their aspirations for an independent Palestinian state. Instead, there were longstanding Jewish communiti...
Survivors of Israel’s Siege of Beirut See History Repeating January 06, 2024
Residents of Beirut see parallels with Israel’s tactics 42 years ago and today’s campaign on the Palestinian enclave. ...
Are We Focused On the Wrong Rome? January 06, 2024
In April 2021, The Atlantic ran a long article by Cullen Murphy entitled “The Fall of Rome All Over Again?” ...
To Win, the Tories Need To Defy Electoral History January 05, 2024
No governing party has ever won from a starting position as weak as the Conservatives’ currently is. ...
Freedom of Expression and Antisemitism January 02, 2024
For years, free speech advocates have complained about universities shielding students from uncomfortable speech at the expense of freedom of expression. Now that the speech is painful to Jews—history’s most convenient scapegoats—university administr...
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