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Essay Archive

Essays I have read, organized by year.

2026

Title Author(s) Source Date
The Autonomous Battlefield David Petraeus & Isaac C. Flanagan Foreign Affairs 03/14/2026
The New Khamenei Akbar Ganji Foreign Affairs 03/14/2026
Nasdaq's Shame Keubiko Keubiko's Musings 03/13/2026
Trump's Last-Gasp Foreign Policy Howard W. French Foreign Policy 03/12/2026
The United States Could Lose the Gulf Marc Lynch Foreign Policy 03/12/2026
How the Iran War Could Consolidate China's Energy Dominance Jason Bordoff & Erica Downs Foreign Policy 03/12/2026
No One, Not Even Beijing, Is Getting Through the Strait of Hormuz Harrison Prétat et al. CSIS 03/07/2026
Marine War Insurance for Hormuz Dries Up as Middle East War Intensifies S&P Global S&P Global 03/07/2026
$3.7 Billion: Estimated Cost of Epic Fury's First 100 Hours Mark F. Cancian & Chris H. Park CSIS 03/07/2026
What Does the Iran War Mean for Global Energy Markets? Joseph Majkut et al. CSIS 03/07/2026
There Is One Crucial Reason We're Talking About Boots on the Ground The New York Times The New York Times 03/07/2026
You'll regret it Sam Kriss Numb at the Lodge 03/07/2026
The Mirage of a New Middle East Dalia Dassa Kaye Foreign Affairs 03/06/2026
Israel After the Iran War Shira Efron Foreign Affairs 03/06/2026
First Thoughts on the New Iran War John Podhoretz Commentary 03/01/2026
War on Iran and the Folly of Regime Change Boston Review Boston Review 03/01/2026
The Problem of Anti-Americanism Seth Mandel Commentary 03/01/2026
Half a Million Syrians Didn't Have To Die Seth Mandel Commentary 03/01/2026
Hope and Fear in Tehran Mitra Vand Persuasion 03/01/2026
Not So 'Mission Accomplished'? David Brady The American Conservative 03/01/2026
Zohran Mamdani's $70 Million Grocery Gamble C. Jarrett Dieterle Reason 03/01/2026
For Iran's Regime, Better to Take a Beating than Capitulate Tanya Goudsouzian & Ibrahim al-Marashi War on the Rocks 02/28/2026
U.S. Military in the Middle East: Numbers Behind Trump's Threats Against Iran Mark F. Cancian & Chris H. Park CSIS 02/28/2026
How Would Iran Respond to a U.S. Attack? Benjamin Jensen CSIS 02/28/2026
Why China Doesn't Want the US and Iran to Make Peace The Diplomat The Diplomat 02/28/2026
Why Iran Will Escalate Nate Swanson Foreign Affairs 02/28/2026
Trump's Iran strikes are first step in regime change Tom Rogan UnHerd 02/28/2026
The US and Israel strike Iran New Statesman New Statesman 02/28/2026
Iran unravelled, a little Paul Buhle Le Monde Diplomatique 02/28/2026
US: an old-new imperial doctrine Gilbert Achcar Le Monde Diplomatique 02/28/2026
What It Will Take to Change the Regime in Iran Behnam Ben Taleblu Foreign Affairs 02/28/2026
Trump's Shaky Bargains Ana Palacio Project Syndicate 02/28/2026
Can Donald Trump Fight a Regime Change War from the Air? James Holmes The National Interest 02/28/2026
Don't Hold Your Breath on Iranian Democracy Alex Madajian The National Interest 02/28/2026
A Kiss in the Killhouse Nic Rowan The Lamp Magazine 02/23/2026
Murder in Lyon Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry First Things 02/23/2026
Child's Play Sam Kriss Harper's Magazine 02/22/2026
The Plot to Save America Maddy Crowell Harper's Magazine 02/21/2026
We Are Creatures Who Mourn Jonathan Lear & Benjamin Y. Fong Granta 02/22/2026
Rebuilding America's Sea Power Todd Young American Affairs 02/21/2026
The Trump Admin Is Serious About Western Civilization Andrew Day The American Conservative 02/21/2026
A Terrier and a Camel: Milton's Theology Tobias Gregory London Review of Books 02/21/2026
Why Europe doesn't have a Tesla Pieter Garicano Works in Progress 02/21/2026