Aussie’s rules: COVID is becoming Australia’s state religion
It will take years for Australia to get back to some semblance of its old free and easy ways
World
Monday
Sunday
Who lost Afghanistan?
Biden has made grave mistakes. Withdrawal isn’t one of them
Thursday
Exclusive: ‘The Taliban smelled weakness’, says Mike Pompeo
The former secretary of state discusses the crisis in Afghanistan in an exclusive interview
Wednesday
President Ice Cream’s Afghan meltdown
There is quite a lot of that Yes-No, Did-Didn’t, whiplashing these days
Tuesday
Central Asia’s geography after America’s defeat
Central Asia is going to matter substantially in terms of 21st-century geopolitics
Monday
Could Prince Andrew tank the British royal family’s reputation?
Nobody likes to be told that their favorite child is a pariah
Friday
The last war for democracy
Islamism has every reason to triumph in Afghanistan. But its triumph may be its undoing
What exactly was the plan in Afghanistan?
Washington wasn’t hoping for a victory. They were just hoping for a brutal civil war that would last long enough for them to save face
Thursday
Did ‘gender studies’ lose Afghanistan?
How Ivy League diplomats sought to remake Afghanistan in Harvard’s image
Monday
Joe Biden’s short walk in the Hindu Kush
To say that what just happened in Afghanistan caught the Biden administration by surprise would be the understatement of the year
The American epoch of failure
A lost war does less damage to a country like the United States than a war that cannot be won
Sunday
‘Bit of a pickle’ — meet the British student stuck on vacation in Kabul
Routledge set off for Afghanistan with the optimism of Tintin but the geopolitical awareness of Captain Haddock
Wrong then, wrong now — Joe Biden’s maddeningly inconsistent foreign policy
Joe Biden’s public pronouncements on Afghanistan neatly signal the folly of American leadership in the last two decades
Autopsy of a failed war
Our longest war ends in another abject failure
What went wrong in Afghanistan
Corruption was entrenched in Afghanistan at the start of the conflict 20 years ago
Tuesday
Will Prince Andrew drag Prince Harry down?
Sleaze and scandal are no good for Prince Harry’s new brand
Tuesday
Viktor Orbán is winning his culture war
It’s time for intellectually depleted Anglo-American conservatives to take a fresh look at Hungary
Friday
Why we need bullfighting
The art of the corrida teaches respect for mortality
Thursday
A DC evening with Svetlana Tikhanovskaya
The Belarusian opposition leader is Washington’s ‘It Girl’
Monday
How the US military got rich from Afghanistan
Trillions of dollars have flowed through the Pentagon’s war budgets in the last two decades
