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Victor Davis Hanson: Why Trump’s Iran Strike Worked
The surviving command may wish to redirect public ire from themselves onto the theocrats. That may be the only way to end this evil regime and the ruin…
Victor Davis Hanson
Garry Kasparov: Israel Won’t Fall for the Illusion of Stability
The military campaign against Iran is another crack in the post-Cold War facade.
Garry Kasparov
Niall Ferguson: America Is in a Late Republic Stage—Like Rome
The historian and Free Press columnist on why America makes a terrible imperial power, how we got ourselves into Cold War II, and why the real culture…
Nathan Gardels
Tyler Cowen: Which Countries Won’t Exist in the 22nd Century?
Americans have the unfortunate tendency to believe the world has stopped evolving. That’s dead wrong.
Tyler Cowen
Niall Ferguson: Trump’s Foreign Policy? Reality TV Politik
Making peace is harder than buying skyscrapers. The president is learning this the painful way in the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
Niall Ferguson
Why Americans Don’t Understand Vladimir Putin
The Russian president hasn’t just gone ‘crazy.’ He’s always been like this.
Konstantin Kisin
When War Crashed Through the Window
Muscovites have long been insulated from the war their country launched. That changed on Tuesday, when Ukraine unleashed a major drone attack on the…
Tanya Lukyanova
LISTEN: The Best Reality TV Is Actually in the Oval Office
Bari Weiss
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What Average Americans Think of Trump’s Showdown with Zelensky
Most ordinary voters weren’t horrified by the president’s treatment of an ally. In fact, they agreed with it.
Batya Ungar-Sargon
Natan Sharansky: A President’s Words Saved Me in the Gulag
Reagan was our lifeline in the Soviet Union. Trump’s rhetoric betrays Russia’s freedom fighters.
Natan Sharansky
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Europe Must Unite or Die
The White House has made itself clear: We can no longer rely on the U.S. So we must rely on ourselves.
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Niall Ferguson: J.D. Vance Picked a Fight in Germany. Will He Get One in China?
From Mar-a-Gaza to the Eurocrats in Munich, no one—so far—is punching back against this White House. But there is one battle the U.S. cannot afford to…
Niall Ferguson
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