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The Dangers of a Lame-Duck Trump

The two places where Trump can inflict the most damage are Iran and Cuba. According to The New York Times, the Trump administration and...

Secularization or Islamization? The 1917 Legal Reforms of the Committee of Union and Progress

The transfer of the sharia courts to the Ministry of Justice, the Family Law Decree, and the madrasa reforms, by contrast, were policies that took shape during Talat Pasha’s grand vizierate and sought to rebuild the instruments of the modern state with an Islamic content. The key question, then, is...
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Knowing the Truth: An Interview with Stephen Meyer

If you decide in advance that human behavior must be explained only by materialistic entities, then you’re going to be limited to explaining all behavior by reference to genes, environments, neuro-physiological impulses or chemistry in the brain; in other words, some form of naturalism or materialism. Alternatively, if you accept...
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What the 2026 midterm elections mean for Republicans, Democrats, America, and the world

n this Q&A Phelan US Centre Director, Professor Peter Trubowitz, gives an overview of the potential results, and what they might mean for the country, US allies, and adversaries....
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Moving the Weapon Elsewhere Is Not Laying It Down

Withdrawal, laying down of arms, and organizational dissolution are different stages from one another. Progress achieved in one stage does not mean that the others have also been completed. Dissolution is a declaration; the handover of weapons is a fact. Peace in Turkey cannot be indexed to the outcome of...
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Eisenkot or Netanyahu: No matter who forms government, democracy is dead

Even a temporary fall from power of Netanyahu, Ben Gvir and Smotrich, would be greeted with audible sighs of relief from Britain and every western capital. They would conclude that Israel is once again run by a pragmatist who knows the West Bank well, and who would stop the E1...
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Europe’s Collapse Enters Its Next Phase

Rome’s senators kept debating procedure while the granaries emptied. The British aristocracy kept dressing for dinner while the Raj slipped away. And today, European finance ministers keep issuing communiqués about “resilience” and “strategic autonomy” while the economies supporting these parasites fail in real time....
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Arms Control, Not Ukraine, Should be on the Superpowers’ Agenda

The test will be visible when APEC closes on November 19. If the Shenzhen statement carries the number 1,550, the summit will have done what no arms control meeting has managed in five years. If it carries the word Ukraine without a Ukrainian in the room, it will be remembered...
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Crypto, AI, and Israel All Spending Big to Influence U.S. Elections

The billions flowing through PACs do not necessarily determine how Americans will vote. But following the money shows which industries and interest groups believe the stakes are high enough to spend heavily trying to shape the next Congress. In 2026, cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence and U.S. policy toward Israel are among...
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Is a New War About to Erupt in the Horn of Africa? An Interview With Beniam Awash

It is rare for the Horn of Africa to make headlines in western media. When I saw Ethiopia and Eritrea were trudging toward a new confrontation, my first thought was to reach out to Beniam Awash, a researcher and sociologist. When I was an undergraduate student, our advisory meetings would...
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The Winter of European Discontent
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The 2026 Midterms: Why James Talarico’s nice populism
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The ‘expert’ as a weapon
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The Long March at Ninety: Sovereignty and Dual Power
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Is International Relations a Racist Discipline? Re-Reading Morgenthau
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Why We Write About Sudan in Proximity to Palestine
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When chatbots become ‘answer engines’: AI, geopolitics and truth
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The midterms blue tsunami shows voters’ rejection of Trump’s agenda
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Should we expect any change in foreign policy in Lula’s next government?
For inevitable geographic reasons and due to a decrease in psychosocial autonomy, Brazilian policy is extremely dependent on the political

Knowing the Truth: An Interview with Stephen Meyer

If you decide in advance that human behavior must be explained only by materialistic entities, then you’re going to be limited to explaining all behavior...

Secularization or Islamization? The 1917 Legal Reforms of the Committee of Union and Progress

The transfer of the sharia courts to the Ministry of Justice, the Family Law Decree, and the madrasa reforms, by contrast, were policies that took...

The case for populism

Frank Furedi’s In Defence of Populism is the definitive guide to the forces upending the status quo across the West....

The European Crisis: A Brief Survey

The point is that national, anti-systemic movements need to get...

The Transformation of Sudan’s Civil War

The war in Sudan has evolved far beyond the initial...

A Muslim Response to Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas

In Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis inaugurated a constructive platform for...

Dangers to Democracy

As a form of government that depends on the people...

Fukuyama, Thiel, and the Revenge of the Last Man

The career and political thought of Peter Thiel undermine Francis...

Being Against Capitalism Isn’t Enough

Socialists need more than a critique of capitalism. We need...

The Tech Oligarchs Have Captured Washington — Now They’re Pivoting to the States

What has been revealed this election cycle is that, in...

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