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War in Europe AD 2015
Why Ukraine Is Our Business

Arguments to abandon Ukraine to its fate just don’t stack up.

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Ancient Wisdom
Know Thy Enemy

The modern Western penchant for trusting in the equal rationality of all is strategic folly. Aeschylus understood this well.

Scholarship vs. Politics
Historians Reject Anti-Israel Resolutions

The American Historical Association rejected a pair of anti-Israel resolutions earlier this month. Perhaps the most important fact about that incident: they rejected them as historians.

Winter Is Coming
Russia’s Output Will Slump Sharply in 2015

Sanctions, falling oil prices, and poor structural economic policy point to a bad year.

After Charlie Hebdo
Paris Is Worth a Mass

Is it right that Paris gets a mass rally while Boko Haram’s slaughter of thousands in Nigeria merits hardly a shrug? No. But it’s the response Paris and Nigeria both deserve. This is what civilization looks like.

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Church and State
Charlie Hebdo and France’s Irreligious Tradition

Public irreligion in France, from the 16th century to Charlie Hebdo.

The Middle East
Egypt and Qatar: Frenemies?

Qatar may have dialed back its support for Islamist movements, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to be best friends again with Egypt and the Gulf states.

Stuck in the Middle Again
Central Europe: A Vanishing Idea

Looking back on 2014, we can see that the first victim of Russia’s war in Ukraine was not a state, but an idea.

Putinworld
Moscow Dissects Central-Eastern Europe

A quarter century after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the fight against communism is receding into memory, but the struggle against Kremlin meddling in eastern and central Europe goes on.

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The Sony Hack
Kick the Chicken, Kowtow to the Monkey

Forget about North Korea and The Interview: For decades Hollywood has been censoring its own output to protect access to the Chinese market.

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