John Foster / 08 May 2026
War as a Management Tool
From Drones to Algorithms
The trouble with modern warfare is that it doesn’t know when to stop.(...)
Editorial
Mitchell Plitnick / 07 May 2026
Taking the Gaza War to Europe
Israel’s Greek Flotilla Raid
According to the Rome Statute, it’s a war crime to attack a humanitarian mission.(...)
William Noah Glucroft / 05 May 2026
The Ulm 5 is All of Us
Destabilising German Democracy
In an infamous prison complex outside Stuttgart, Germany’s constitutional credibility is on trial.(...)
Ari Paul /
Israel: A State of Denial
Ruthless Cosmopolitan
Alan Dershowitz, the famous pro-Israel law professor, has announced that he is becoming a Republican. For anyone familiar with Dershowitz’s politics, this should hardly be surprising.(...)
Josh White / 04 May 2026
Britain’s New Centre-Left Journalism
The Byline Times Experience
Typical readers of Byline Times don’t just feel let down by the UK's tabloid press, but the BBC and The Guardian as well.(...)
Mitchell Plitnick / 02 May 2026
After Zionism
Omer Bartov’s Israel: What Went Wrong?
On 15 July, 2025, The New York Times ran an op-ed titled, “I'm a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.”(...)
John Foster / 01 May 2026
Undermining Europe From Within
France Under Far-Right Rule
A Rassemblement National victory probably won’t lead to the crisis that European elites once feared.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 29 Apr 2026
Listening to Where We Live
Outsidergrad, by Joel Schalit and Duncan Simpson
Even in a city’s privileged neighbourhoods, we navigate a world of sound too complex to process consciously. But things are far worse in its less favoured parts.(...)
Ari Paul / 27 Apr 2026
Finding Democracy After Orbán
Ruthless Cosmopolitan
Forget Moscow. Despite all the talk of Russian interference in America’s 2016 election, the current brand of neofascist thought in the West has made Budapest its intellectual home.(...)
John Foster / 24 Apr 2026
War is the New Normal
Iran and the End of Peace
War has ceased to be a discrete condition, distinguishable from something else called peace.(...)