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...

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...

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. wapo.st/4li0ob2

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...

"Put simply, 'global South' is a euphemism, a seemingly innocuous substitute that allows those in polite society to avoid using the phrase they really mean: the nonwhite world." — Zachariah Mampilly www.foreignaffairs.com/world/what-g...

Trump is seen as serious about trying to remove Gazans from the territory. There have been conversations with various Arab and African states about whether they'd be willing to accept them. The Arab plan for Gaza is seen as unrealistic because it glosses over key issues.

Interesting study that suggests the world’s population has been systematically undercounted and could be much larger than we imagine.

Narrator voice: in fact, all the official intended was disrespect.

Drezner's World has never published anything not written by the hard-working staff. Until now. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/guest-post...

America’s great research universities were not invented in Silicon Valley garages or cooked up by venture capitalists. For centuries, they’ve been built by scholars, bolstered by benefactors, and scaled up by the state. The government is now trying to destroy them. The damage will be profound.

I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.

Western writers have long hesitated to call Byzantium what it was: the Roman Empire. Historian Anthony Kaldellis calls this “Roman denialism” & has spent years critiquing it. Now he takes the fight to a popular audience. By Luka Ivan Jukić in @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/essays/overc...

People in the media in the last decade who, despite everything else happening in the country and the world, thought it was worth your time and ours to get exercised by the things kids on campuses do and say—you bear a great deal of responsibility for this.

🚨 Holy crap. Marco Rubio is seemingly purporting to exempt nearly all immigration regulations and policy, along with things like export controls, trade rules, and more, from notice and comment rulemaking requirements. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-04116.pdf

This should terrify every person in this country. The use of machine learning systems to approximate an individuals views on war and then, if they are here lawfully on a visa, tag them for deportation is about as sci-fi dystopian as it gets. www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...

Then the mayor says the following, re: Khalil: "What I'm finding surprising is the level of support you're all displaying, but I didn't see that support for me"

It looks like the lair of some brooding parasitic alien queen. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

“Israel ordered all of Gaza's electricity supply to be cut off on Sunday…The decision to cut electricity is expected to primarily affect the operation of desalination plants which are crucial for providing clean drinking water.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Here to highlight the “culture section” on the list of words banned by/for Trump’s government. The choice of the policed terms is not just about DEI, transphobia, & misogyny. It’s about razing the foundation of how culture is studied & matters *across borders*. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

At @foreignaffairs.com we were pleased to run a review of the book here: www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/caps...

There may be something to the left accelerationist view that the chaos of Trump 2.0 will open new pathways. But it seems far more likely that this is just right accelerationism in action.

"Washington’s bid for Greenland is just the opening chapter of a new global competition for territory... as major powers try to position themselves for success in a warming world."

ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh. This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...