In the 48 hours before the devastating terrorist attacks, the Bush administration was insisting we spend enough on counterterrorism and not enough on national missile defense.
Iraq War
Posted inBooks
The Last Man Comes Full Circle
From Allan Bloom’s lecture halls to the Iraq War’s intellectual wreckage, a memoir of how a neoconservative movement insider became a dissenter.
Posted inForeign Policy
David Frum Is Wrong About the Democrats and Iran
The Atlantic writer is asking congressional Democrats to fund Trump’s misbegotten war. They should decline.
Posted inPolitics
The CIA Since the Turn of the Century
Historian and journalist Tim Weiner on how ideology is the enemy of intelligence, not just for Trump in Iran but for every American president.
Posted inPolitics
Cocky Iran Hawks Forget the History of Blowback
Bombing Iran may be the easy part. What hawks refuse to reckon with is everything that comes next.
Posted inBooks
Tucker Carlson’s Long, Strange Trip
From bow-tied neocon to flannel-clad conspiracist, a once-talented writer becomes a promulgator of MAGA bilge.
Posted inPolitics Roundtable
Trump’s War Gamble: “Isolationist” President Opens Pandora’s Box With Iran
Jacob Heilbrunn joins the editors to weigh in on potential military escalation, political divides, and economic fallout from Trump’s strikes on Iran.
Posted inNewsletter
Was Obama Correct to Not Strike Syria?
Plus, the DOGE disaster and one possible good idea from RFK Jr.—all in the December 10, 2024 newsletter.
Posted inJuly/August 2023
The Provocations of Martin Peretz
The legendary editor shook up the political-media power axis. Was he a free-thinking iconoclast or an irredeemable bigot?
