It appears that the vicious conflict spiral triggered by the latest Israel-Hamas war can end only one way. To understand what is happening in and around Israel and Palestine right now as the week-long truce fails, there is one fact above all others that you need to keep in mind…

With comparisons between Trump and Hitler almost banal these days, it’s worth looking at what happened the last time the left lost big to fascism. The Fall of France in 1940 was a more shocking event than most American histories of the Second World War admit. Like Trump’s win over…

When Godwin’s law is the most coherent critique of American politics one can make, you know that something is broken. For anyone who doesn’t know, Godwin’s law states that the first side to invoke Hitler in a political discussion has lost. …

No matter what Israel does, it always has the backing of American politicians. The reason why is kind of terrifying. To understand the modern United States of America, you have to keep in mind that so much of the history Americans are taught about it is dangerously biased. …

Complicity in the latest round of Israeli war crimes will be the final nail in the coffin for American power. The superpower era is over, if it was ever real at all. Here’s the future of the world order as it appears to be emerging as of today: At this…

Contrary to how his words in The Economist are being portrayed, the real message general Zaluzhnyi has for the world is that Ukraine sees a clear path to victory. There is no stalemate, not yet anyway: both sides are conducting operations designed to prove this is the case. Ukraine, for…

With the party deep in the throes of a nasty case of groupthink, the hope of averting a disastrous Biden-Trump rematch is fading fast. When you grow up in a religion that a lot of Americans think of as a cult, what you learn about groupthink in college and graduate…

What prospective writers should know about the platform before signing up. A hazard of undergoing doctoral level training in science is that you tend to look at everything thereafter as a research problem. And over the past few years of writing on this blog site I’ve made a few discoveries…

Despite the unfolding tragedy of the Israel-Hamas war soaking up the world’s attention, the real fight of our times continues in Ukraine. Thankfully, there’s good news to be had: ATACMS has entered the chat, Ukraine is poised to push across the Dnipro river, and the ruscists are once again throwing…