Autopsy of a failed war
Our longest war ends in another abject failure
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I think Donald Trump’s email team is trying to murder me
I had been receiving Trump’s fundraising emails for years and certainly the language had always been insistent. But this was a new level of aggression
The last war for democracy
Islamism has every reason to triumph in Afghanistan. But its triumph may be its undoing
How America squandered its moral authority in Iraq
The true cost of the disaster in Iraq may still have to be paid
The future of liberal education
The war on liberal education is an assault on liberal democracy
Substack changed the business of journalism
Substack took off because people are increasingly distrustful of mainstream media outlets
Hot vax summer
Despite the much-anticipated ‘shot girl summer’, life hasn’t snapped back to normal
The long march to disaster
The US military spends money but cannot win wars
Central Asia’s geography after America’s defeat
Central Asia is going to matter substantially in terms of 21st-century geopolitics
The trans war on the body
Trans rights are changing what it is to be human
Why are young women writing homosexual erotica about men?
Slash is any fanfiction that’s anchored in a homosexual relationship
After Afghanistan
9/11 was the last time the country was truly united in its response to anything