Nicastro on Karp: theamericanconservative.com/battle-hymn-of…

Being a supplier of this stuff must be the greatest gig ever invented. It’s like being a crack dealer, except even more lucrative, fully legal, and gains the applause of the intelligentsia.

Israel’s unilateral attack on Iran is intentionally putting American lives in danger with the hopes of pulling us into another war. Time to cut them off.

With allies like these, who needs enemies? Me in ⁦UnHerd⁩ on Israel’s attack on Iran: unherd.com/2025/06/netany… unherd.com/2025/06/netany…

It cannot be called a "pre-emptive strike" if there is no imminent threat of attack. It's a war of aggression and should be described as such.

Tail wags dog.

It doesn't seem right that there are like a million songs about being in love with a girl but only one about encountering spectral cowboys doomed to eternally chase a herd of ghostly cattle.

Kamakura

"It’s folly to believe that the current regime can be collapsed without American forces having to descend to prop up a new state" -- important from Sohrab Ahmari: unherd.com/2025/06/the-re…

The worst weapons of mass distruction are the neocons.

Israel attacked Iran because it feared diplomacy might work. A nuclear deal could lead Iran to be integrated into a new Middle East and allow the United States to pull back from the region. The outcome that would most benefit America is the outcome Israel acted to prevent.

Edvard Munch, Summer Night at the Beach

My latest for UnHerd taking geopolitical stock of the 12 Day War: Zionism at an impasse as the quest for Jewish security and self-determination remains dependent on US patronage, and nuclear proliferation now a certainty following the bombing of Fordow. unherd.com/2025/06/israel…

No ruling party in US history has wasted a decent mandate and a tectonic populist realignment the way the Trump II GOP is doing now. Future political-science shelves will groan under the sheer weight of hefty tomes trying to explain it.

Call for applications for the 2025-2026 IR Theory Colloquium is out--can't recommend enough for junior scholars in IR. Info attached!