Ladies and gentlemen, the globalist elite:
03.02.2026 15:02
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Ladies and gentlemen, the globalist elite:
In my view, this is the best take on Carney's speech: Matias Spektor on why the world will come to miss Western hypocrisy. "A world in which powerful states no longer feel compelled to justify themselves morally is not more honest—it is more dangerous." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
“The defining feature of the current moment is not that the United States violates the principles it once championed but that it increasingly dispenses with the need to justify its actions in those terms at all,” writes Matias Spektor.
As the US seems poised to intervene again in Iran, I spoke with Karim Sadjadpour for the latest episode of the @foreignaffairs.com podcast about the weakness and brutality of the regime, what U.S. intervention can and cannot achieve, and what lies ahead. www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/wha...
Read Jennifer Sciubba in the new issue of
@foreignaffairs.com on the potential costs of the global panic around depopulation.
www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/depo...
For the latest episode of The Foreign Affairs Interview, I spoke with @dacemoglumit.bsky.social about technology, great power competition, and the fall--and possible rise--of liberal democracy. Available here www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/how... and in all podcast apps. @foreignaffairs.com
It was a pleasure to participate in the recent Global History and Politics Dialogue in Istanbul. Many fascinating conversations on the European security order of the twentieth century and the present--and the convulsions ahead. @koerberhistory.bsky.social @chathamhouse.org @ox.ac.uk
Ever year, @foreignaffairs.com publishes hundreds of book reviews. Here's our selection of the best books we covered in 2025, featuring @edwardluce.bsky.social @katherinestewart.bsky.social @johncassidysays.bsky.social and many others. www.foreignaffairs.com/lists/best-b...
"To drive a Cybertruck is to partake in the fantasy of a premodern lawlessness in which the mightiest warlord made his own rules, unencumbered by legislation or moral stricture." Maya Vinokur in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A really bracing essay from Michael Beckley in the new issue of @foreignaffairs.com on the stagnation of the global order. "The world is now a closed club of aging incumbents, circled by middle powers, developing countries, and failing states." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
"The more the United States seeks to undermine Brazil’s sovereignty and destabilize its democratic institutions—including by implicitly advocating regime change—the more geopolitical space it creates for China to expand its already considerable influence in the country."
As Lula speaks at the UN, read the scholar and former Brazilian official Hussein Kalout on Trump's vendetta against Brazil: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
According to Robert Pape, Israel's war in Gaza has killed five to ten percent of the pre-war population, making the Israeli offensive "the most lethal case of a Western democracy using the punishment of civilians as a tactic of war." www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/unpar...
“There’s no hunger in Gaza,” Eliyahu said in the same interview, dismissing reports of starvation as anti-Israel propaganda. “But we don’t need to be concerned with hunger in the Strip. Let the world worry about it.” @ishaantharoor.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
The Brilliance is in the Bullshit: another look at the Clash of Civilizations
foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/27/s...
If @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social eventually becomes mayor of NYC, that would mean that the mayor of NYC and the mayor of London, @london.gov.uk Sadiq Khan, the mayors of two hugely important global cities, will both belong to the same fervent, zealous tribe. Like me, they are supporters of Arsenal FC.
For many of us who came of age around the time of the Iraq War, this all feels rather bleak and familiar. And yet, before the US invaded Iraq, there were millions in the streets. If an antiwar movement remains in the US, it has been entirely subsumed by the convulsed state of American politics.
Read Robert Pape in @foreignaffairs.com on why Israel's air war on Iran will fail. www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/israels... Even if the United States supports Israel in an attack on Fordow, it will not be able to destroy Iran's nuclear program.
Surreal that so much hinges on the wisdom of Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, MTG, and others prevailing in the internecine war in the American right over the Israel-Iran conflict.
America now has the foreign policy of a personalist dictator. New piece from me in @foreignaffairs.com
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Looking forward to speaking with Andre Aciman about his new book, Room on the Sea, at my local bookstore, @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social greenlightbookstore.com/event/2025-0... on July 1
Some context for my comment above about higher ed as a valuable export: In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says his country is committing war crimes
"Big Tech companies may be about to discover that not only are they never going to have access to the Chinese market but they are increasingly persona non grata in European markets, too." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Another startling exhibit of American decline.
In the history of empires, how often has the metropole said, "Oh, wait, I want to be just like the periphery"?
My latest, sifting through the wreckage:
Trump hails ‘liberation.’ The world sees America alone.
Free to read.
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Awaiting the avalanche of pieces on how the rest of the world can de-risk its supply chains... away from the US.
"Trumpism, in other words, is an intensification of long-standing, antidemocratic, and profoundly American trends. There is hardly a need to use the term fascism to understand it. This is America, and Trump is nothing if not deeply American." Daniel Bessner jacobin.com/2025/03/trum...