The U.S. Should Use Iran’s Collapsing Economy to Win the War
The people can rise up by staying home from work.
August 12, 2026
The New Middle Eastern Alliance Is the Latest in a Long Line of Purely Symbolic Coalitions
Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan, and the theater of mutual defense.
Representatives of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan met in the holy city of Mecca on Friday to sign a mutual-defense pact. The precise terms, Hussein Aboubakr Mansour writes, aren’t especially important, as the agreement’s significance lies elsewhere:
August 12, 2026
The New Middle Eastern Alliance Is the Latest in a Long Line of Purely Symbolic Coalitions
Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan, and the theater of mutual defense.
The Church of England Has a Jewish Problem Once More
Which faiths will King Charles defend?
A Classic Yiddish Holocaust Memoir That Shouldn’t Be Ignored
Rachmil Bryks’s May God Avenge Their Blood.
Praying While Dying of Pancreatic Cancer
A conversation about faith, mortality, higher education, and America.