The Reading Junkie

The Taliban not only took over Afghanistan, they preserved its political institutions, restored law and order, destroyed ISIS, and even made it safe f...

Nothing good is happening from the American perspective. Even as a cynic, I am actually astonished at how fast this situation is deteriorating. Yester...

More than a year and a half ago I wrote about the Daniel Penny subway incident in the New York City subway. Now the ordeal is over, Penny has been fou...

Here’s a quick write-up I shared to Quora yesterday. Apparently I am the minority in this opinion and have been arguing with people about it, in...

With accelerating Russian gains in Donbass and the implied political shift accompanying Trump into office next month there is an equivalent increase i...

Last week at a Thanksgiving gathering in Moscow I had the privilege of meeting Kosti Hayskonen, a Finnish journalist reporting out of the military zon...

This is a map of the Battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916. Over 18 weeks, French and British forces advanced 10 kilometers capturing a little ove...

So there is this idea, based on exactly nothing, that western troops are better than Ukrainian troops. There is also this idea that American logistics...

This week the Associated Press openly stated something that most of us have known for a while. That Biden administration is pressuring Ukraine to lowe...

The rewriting of history continues. Afghanistan is the latest case of “the USA could have easily won but we just chose not to.” Is that re...

Last night I read Mumu, an 1852 short story by Ivan Turgenev. If you are not already familiar with Mumu, I would like you to read it first, and there ...

Trump’s win is a triumph of “America first” over “American supremacy.” While these two things may sound almost the same, they’re not. Amer...