September 2021

The US military spends money but cannot win wars

Despite the much-anticipated ‘shot girl summer’, life hasn’t snapped back to normal

Substack took off because people are increasingly distrustful of mainstream media outlets

The war on liberal education is an assault on liberal democracy

The true cost of the disaster in Iraq may still have to be paid

Islamism has every reason to triumph in Afghanistan. But its triumph may be its undoing

Can the President survive without the global media?

I had been receiving Trump’s fundraising emails for years and certainly the language had always been insistent. But this was a new level of aggression

Our longest war ends in another abject failure

Average Europeans live much nicer lives than average Americans

The disappearance of working writers in the Hamptons mirrors the absence of writers in US public life