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Let the Kids Smoke
A new tobacco ban in Britain for anyone born after 2008 may make the next generation safer. So why do I feel like we’re losing something?
Kara Kennedy
How the British Army Learned to Win, with Huw Davies
Eighteenth-century military history can teach us a lot about modern warfare.
Aaron MacLean
52M
The Strategic View from the Baltic Sea with General Michael Claesson
The Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces assesses the future of U.S.–European alliances.
Aaron MacLean
48M
Coleman Hughes: What Ibram X. Kendi Doesn’t Admit
In his new book, America's most famous anti-racist calls politicians who support border control ‘neo-Nazis’ and puts scare quotes around ‘crisis’ when…
Coleman Hughes
I Went Undercover in France’s Anti-Israel Movement
What I found is how a mutual hatred for the West, imperialism, and Israel have coalesced around Palestine—a cause for which its devout followers are…
Nora Bussigny
Tony Blair: Why the West Fails to Stop Antisemitism
Politicians condemn each attack on Jews but do little to fight the ideologies that create the hostility.
Tony Blair
The Many Faces of Jew-Hate
This week, Iranian intelligence was caught surveilling London’s oldest synagogue, a terror plot targeting Jews was foiled in France, and Belgium…
The Editors
Konstantin Kisin: The Iran War, Europe’s Decline, and the Future of the West
What caused Europe’s decline, and what can reverse it?
Rafaela Siewert
47M
How Reality Destroyed Europe’s Green Energy Dreams
Just a few years ago, European economies were united in pushing for green energy at any cost—what changed?
Bjorn Lomborg
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Iran Is Collapsing, but Islamism Is Spreading
The fall of the Islamic Republic would be a defeat for political Islam. But an election in Britain and an attack in Texas suggest that Islamism poses an…
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Modern Terrorism Was Born in the 1970s
International security correspondent Jason Burke on the radicals, hijackers, and government crises that reshaped global security.
Eli Lake
48M
Marco Rubio’s Minor Diplomatic Miracle
At the Munich Security Conference, the secretary of state delivered a bracing critique of European complacency—and got a standing ovation for it.
Eli Lake
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