Essays June 2026

Trump’s Iran Deal is Built to Fail

Neither side can make a credible commitment to honor promises It’s almost too on the nose: last Wednesday, a militarily...
THE JST INTERVIEW June 2026

Christian Caryl Decodes Putin’s Fragile Empire

https://youtu.be/04y46XEiytU From Chechnya to Ukraine, from Moscow’s weakened diplomacy to the rise of open-source...
Essays June 2026

When U.S. Foreign Policy Loses Its Doctrine

Foreign policy is ultimately built on two foundations: power and credibility. Power allows a state to act. Credibility...
Essays June 2026

The Liberal Case for Censorship

Free speech is a practice with preconditions, and our adversaries have learned to dismantle them. Defending those...
Essays June 2026

China’s Quiet Contribution to the US-Iran Ceasefire

When US President Donald Trump publicly thanked Chinese President Xi Jinping in an interview with The New...
Editorials June 2026

America at 250: The Responsibility to Lead

As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of its independence, this historic moment offers an occasion for pride,...
Essays June 2026

FORTUNE FAVORS THE BRAVE AND THE BALTICS

NATO doesn’t face the threat of an attack from Russia. It’s already being attacked. Stymied in Ukraine, where Russian...
Essays June 2026

ISRAEL’S GRAND STRATEGY – AND POLITICS? – AT AN INFLECTION POINT

Grand Strategy has been elegantly defined by John Lewis Gaddis and others as the dynamic relationship between national...
Essays June 2026

AMERICAN LEADERSHIP ROLE IN EUROPE IS NOT AN OPTION

In early July a major NATO conference will take place in Ankara, Turkey. It arrives right after America’s 250th anniversary...
Essays June 2026

How Israel Lost the U.S.-Iran War

It needs to shift gears promptly if it doesn’t want to lose the next one too Israelis were feeling like dreamers, to...

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