John Foster / 18 Nov 2022
The Forever War Comes Home
Ukraine and American Strategy
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine continues with no end in sight.(...)
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John Foster / 21 Oct 2022
Nothing to See Here
Truss and the Trump Legacy
Don’t blame the Tories. She was never fit for office. That’s the standard line.(...)
John Foster / 10 Sep 2022
The Irish Abyss
Truss and the Backstop
The Tories believe they’re the most consistent party in British politics.(...)
The Battleground / 13 Jun 2022
End of An Era
The Battleground’s Summer Books List
“No more blood.” The graffiti has been there for as long as I can remember.(...)
John Foster / 10 Jun 2022
Status Quo Apologist
Liberalism and Its Discontents, by Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama has a fraught relationship with history. In the late 1980s, he thought it was over.(...)
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John Foster / 13 May 2022
Know It When We See It
George Mosse on Fascism
One of the great ironies of today's politics is that when it comes to fascism, it’s often difficult to know what one is talking about.(...)
Joel Schalit / 18 Mar 2022
A Russian Education
Putin’s Genocide Charge
No war in recent memory has divided progressives like the Ukraine crisis. (...)
Keith Kahn-Harris / 07 Mar 2022
Putin Comes Clean
From Denial to Invasion
Invasion is an act of commitment. To send troops in, to kill, to seek to dominate, is to rule out alternative courses of action, perhaps forever.(...)
Oliver Sheppard / 02 Feb 2022
Reappraising Steady Diet of Nothing
The 30th Anniversary of Fugazi’s Most Underrated LP
"Though the album is a bit of a 'sleeper’ in many people’s eyes (ears?)," Ian MacKaye recently wrote to me, "the songs on that album were probably played by us live more than the others over the years”.(...)
Joel Schalit / 25 Jan 2022
Tremors of War
Holocaust Memorial Day in Torino
It’s an awkward sort of honour. But Torino always has the best Holocaust Memorial Day billboards. (...)