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Asia
November 2025
A Pipeline to Success: Central Asia’s Strategic Opportunity
It’s time to go big in Central Asia. The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India gas pipeline holds promise to reshape...
Essays
November 2025
Reforming the Department of State: A Vision for an Elite, Agile Diplomatic Corps
The United States possesses the world’s most powerful military, the largest economy, and the most admired culture. Yet, for...
Essays
November 2025
Can Europe Go It Alone?
Under the Trump administration, which entered office in January 2025, the United States has spurned, or at least...
Essays
November 2025
The Unquiet Last Years of Naguib Mahfouz
Preface
Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006) became the Arab world’s first Nobel Laureate in Literature in 1988. His 34 novels include...
Essays
November 2025
New York’s Zohran Mamdani and Chile’s Gabriel Boric
When he took office as Chile’s president in early 2022, the youthful Gabriel Boric was hailed internationally as the...
Essays
November 2025
The View Over the Yarmouk River, An Israeli Reserve Officer on the Israel-Syria border
As part of my army reserve service, I belong to a unit that is holding a sector opposite Syria and defending the State of...
Essays
November 2025
Confronting the Muslim Brotherhood: A Practical Roadmap for the Trump Administration
Ten months into his second term, President Donald Trump has reshaped much of the Middle East’s political landscape. His...
Essays
November 2025
The United States as an Offshore Balancer
Americans’ frustration with recent failures abroad, combined with looming challenges in Europe, East Asia, and the Middle...
Africa
November 2025
Africa’s Twin, Connected Crises
Nigeria’s attacks on its Christian community and Sudan’s collapse are not isolated crises. They are chapters of the same...
Book & Movie Reviews
November 2025
A Clarion Call for Liberal Education
Blue Skies: My Life in Many Worlds, by S. Frederick Starr, Dorrance Publishers, 2025.
In his memoirs, Edward Gibbon...
