Argument

Why There is No Peace Between Israel and the Palestinians

A Telling Example From the Oslo Process

Nov 17 • Kyle Orton

A Myth-Maker of the Soviet Revolution: Maxim Gorky

Widely respected abroad as a literary figure, Gorky whitewashed some of the Soviet regime’s worst crimes

Nov 15 • Kyle Orton

Weighing the Hope and Uncertainty over Ahmad al-Shara

Taking account of Al-Shara’s past while making policy for Syria’s future

Nov 13 • Kyle Orton

General Pinochet and the Nazis

Soviet Disinformation Never Truly Dies

Oct 4 • Kyle Orton

The United Nations Report Accusing Israel of “Genocide” is a Joke

HAMAS’s political warfare reaches the U.N.’s “human rights” body

Sep 18 • Kyle Orton

Propaganda and the Press: The Information War Against Israel

Lessons From Two Recent Media Misadventures in Gaza

Sep 14 • Kyle Orton

The Gray Lady and Gaza

The New York Times Has Not Had a Good War

Aug 1 • Kyle Orton

Can We Ever Know How Many People Were Killed in Rwanda?

Jul 26 • Kyle Orton

The Historicity of Islam’s First Caliph

In Search of Abu Bakr

Jul 1 • Kyle Orton

Trump Puts Iran in its Place

Treating the Islamic Revolution as the surmountable challenge it is.

Jun 22 • Kyle Orton

Israel Seems to Be Serious About Disarming Iran

The first wave of the long-awaited Israeli strikes are encouragingly broad.

Jun 13 • Kyle Orton

Where Did Islam Come From?

Assessing the historical claims and arguments in ‘The Sacred City’ (2016), by Dan Gibson

Jun 11 • Kyle Orton

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