Essays
South China Sea Change
India’s Response to the South China Sea Verdict

The ruling couldn’t have been better for New Delhi, but where India goes next depends on China’s response.

Genocide
Falling for ISIS Propaganda about Christians

An influential international body endorses the discredited claim that ISIS wants to protect Christians—not commit genocide against them.

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After the Coup
Dark Days Ahead

The plot against Erdoğan has laid bare dangerous undercurrents in Turkey.

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Eternity
Yazidis, Hell, and its Abolition

The Yazidi version of Satan relates in a curious way to a serious Christian tradition about hell and its abolition.

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Information Age
Good for the Media, Bad for America

How serious political reporting became a luxury good amid a mass-market media circus.

2016
An Open Letter on Donald Trump’s Vision of US Foreign Policy

The following statement was drafted by Ali Wyne, a security fellow with the Truman National Security Project. All of the signatories have signed in their personal capacities. Those who wish to add their names to this statement should contact Ali at awyne@alum.mit.edu.

Political Decay
The Make-Believe Supreme Court and the Coming Constitutional Crisis

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s comments on the election show that the fiction of the non-partisan justice is fraying, but the looming ideological transformation of the Court threatens to vitiate it altogether.

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The Turkish Coup
The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight

The coup failed, and Erdogan survived, but the events of July 15 left only losers in their wake.

After Last Night
A Coup in Facetime

President Erdoğan will celebrate his deliverance from last night’s coup as a triumph of “democracy”. We need not necessarily join the celebration.

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After Brexit
What to Make of May’s Cabinet

Lenin once observed that in some decades nothing happens, and in some weeks, decades happen. That is the position in which Brexit Britain finds itself today.

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