The End of Biden’s Middle East Mirage
In his popular 1998 book, The Dream Palace of the Arabs, the late scholar Fouad Ajami offered a critique of 20th-century Arab nationalists and intellectuals...
Latin America Doesn’t Want to Be Forced Into Cold War 2.0
You might not know it by the relatively scant news coverage, but the U.S. congressional delegation, led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, that visited Brazil, Chile,...
Calling Trump an Anti-Imperialist Is Nonsense
There’s a song on the Lemonheads’ underrated 1996 album Car Button Cloth that I love for very personal reasons. “The Outdoor Type” is a jangly...
Foreign-Policy Dissenters Deserve a Fair Hearing
As we approach the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, there are a lot of lessons on which to reflect. One of the...