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November 2025
New York’s Zohran Mamdani and Chile’s Gabriel Boric
When he took office as Chile’s president in early 2022, the youthful Gabriel Boric was hailed internationally as the...
Essays
November 2025
The View Over the Yarmouk River, An Israeli Reserve Officer on the Israel-Syria border
As part of my army reserve service, I belong to a unit that is holding a sector opposite Syria and defending the State of...
Essays
November 2025
Confronting the Muslim Brotherhood: A Practical Roadmap for the Trump Administration
Ten months into his second term, President Donald Trump has reshaped much of the Middle East’s political landscape. His...
Essays
November 2025
The United States as an Offshore Balancer
Americans’ frustration with recent failures abroad, combined with looming challenges in Europe, East Asia, and the Middle...
Africa
November 2025
Africa’s Twin, Connected Crises
Nigeria’s attacks on its Christian community and Sudan’s collapse are not isolated crises. They are chapters of the same...
Book & Movie Reviews
November 2025
A Clarion Call for Liberal Education
Blue Skies: My Life in Many Worlds, by S. Frederick Starr, Dorrance Publishers, 2025.
In his memoirs, Edward Gibbon...
Essays
November 2025
Kurdistan Between Tehran and Ankara
Wedged between Turkey and Iran, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq has become a crossroads of two competing regional...
Book & Movie Reviews
November 2025
A Tormented Search for Balance
Kissinger, a PBS documentary by Barak Goodman, October 2025
PBS’s three-hour documentary on Henry Kissinger is in...
Essays
October 2025
Missile Defense Through a Quantum Leap in Artificial Intelligence
For Israel, a nation whose survival hinges on maintaining regional technological leadership in defense, the development of...
Essays
October 2025
Cutting the Maduro Regime’s Lifeline
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to María Corina Machado, a woman who succeeded in unifying the Venezuelan opposition and...
