Welcome to Fortress Iran
This week, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei reshuffled the Islamic Republic’s security apparatus as his country entered its sixth month of war with the United States. Given the byzantine…
Jason Arday: a question of academic standards
Amid much attention to Jason Arday’s plagiarism and advanced Walter Mittyfication, the gobbledygook of his writing style has been largely overlooked, not least by the professorial electors at Cambridge and…
Must data centers be so ugly?
A church, traditionally, is the house of God. The chapel of Torre Girona, however, is a house of superhuman intelligence. In this quiet corner of Barcelona sits one of Europe’s…
Did MAGA create the Ceuta crisis?
Sixty-thousand people — roughly the population of Loughborough. That is how many migrants just forced their way into the Spanish town of Ceuta, a coastal enclave on the Moroccan side…
Will the queue bring down Putin?
Few things symbolize late Soviet decay like the queue. I remember, in 1991, walking to the grocery store from school so I could hold a place in line for my…
Trump can still win the Iran war
As the war in Iran enters its fifth month, President Trump is growing increasingly frustrated. He sees few good options to end the war and talks of “lunatics” and “revenge…
The Left’s war on anti-crime tech
Xavier Bautista grew up in the largely working-class black and Latino community of The Port in Cambridge, Mass. During his life, Xavier watched as an influx of Harvard and MIT…
The poet who invented Burnham’s North
On Monday we said hello to Britain’s first born-and-bred Northern prime minister since Harold Wilson. It would be fair to say that Andy Burnham has not been shy in heralding…
Escape from Trad-Land
In the town of St. Mary’s, Kan., a blanket party wasn’t as exciting as it might sound. St. Mary’s is the de facto US headquarters of the Society of Saint…
Kevin Keegan: true King of the North
In the late afternoon of 16 February 1909, a terrifying explosion tore through the Burns Pit at West Stanley in County Durham. Sheets of flame erupted from the pit shaft,…