Islamism 101
America’s leaders refuse to do their homework
Kremlinology
Previewing Talks with Iran
Media Calls
Yet Another American Hostage In Tehran
Siamak Namazi is in Evin Prison in Tehran, and on the face of it that’s very surprising. Why? Because he’s long been a friend and supporter of the regime that has incarcerated him. He...
Op-eds
Why Turkey is Now a Target and a Tinderbox
“We will manage the wave of change in the Middle East. Just as we have an ideal in our minds about Turkey, we have an ideal of a new Middle East.” That was the boast ma...
Op-eds
Putin’s Progress
Not long after the implosion of the Soviet Union, I attended a conference in Moscow. The topic: how Russia would evolve in the post-communist era about to begin. Most participants were confident...
Op-eds
Black Swans, Icebergs and Benghazi
‘Humans are great at self-delusion,” the polymathic philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb has observed. I’m confident he’d agree that the humans who populate the foreign-polic...
Op-eds
Islamology 101
Few Americans would get a passing grade.