Persistent, Pernicious, Perpetual, and Permanent War

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. The real enemy of America isn’t Russia or China or Iran or any other country. It’s America’s own pursuit of persistent, pernicious, perpetual, and more or less permanent war or preparations for the same. It’s...

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The Man-Made Atrocity Famine in Gaza

Israel’s deliberate policy of starvation in Gaza has created the worst-case scenario experts and humanitarian agencies have been warning about for more than a year and a half: The “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip,” the leading...

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An Interview with Professor Nicolai Petro

Reprinted with permission from The Realist Review. The following is an interview with Nicolai N. Petro about his book, The Tragedy of Ukraine (De Gruyter, 2023). What inspired you to approach the Russia–Ukraine conflict through the lens of classical Greek tragedy? Why...

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