"The universal injunction’s relative novelty"... they have been around for 37% of the Constitution's history. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/o...

“It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t match the Berninis, it matches the Gospels" RIP Pope Francis www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/w...

It occurs to me that the US putting a 104% tariff of China removes a major deterrence to China going after Taiwan. They're already getting hit with economic sanctions.

In engineering, efficiency is a measurable quantity, meaning the output you get for a certain input. With the advent of the Department of Government Efficiency, it's worth diving deeper into the details of what "efficiency" really means.

My latest piece for @foreignpolicy.com w/ @stevenacook.bsky.social "Over and over again, the Turks have overestimated their ability to manage and shape crises in the region. There is no better evidence of this than Syria itself...1/2

BREAKING: Satellite imagery confirms the Russian Navy has abandoned Tartus

I think this is my first post on Bluesky. I'm as nervous as anyone else about the Islamist takeover of Syria but I'm happy to celebrate a milestone... Wikipedia once read "The Russian naval facility in Tartus is" and, now, joyfully, i the same sentence has been rewritten in the past tense