
The Real Intelligence Failure in Iran
A costly quagmire was predictable. Trump went to war anyway.

A costly quagmire was predictable. Trump went to war anyway.


“What has the ‘innocent rodent,’ as George Eliot would say, ‘with its small nibbling pleasures,’ to do with the great festival of the Resurrection?” (From 1890)

Space scientists won’t say so, but the results of three brilliantly conceived experiments lead inevitably to one startling conclusion: Life, in some form, exists on Mars. (From 1977)



the david frum show•Episode 53
Graeme Wood on what he saw at the Strait of Hormuz and the lockdown of oil in the Persian Gulf. Plus: Trump’s war-information blackout and Thomas Paine’s Common Sense at 250 years old.


LIMITED SERIES
There are authoritarian tactics already at work in the United States. To root them out, you have to know where to look.

how to age up•Episode 6
Younger generations are having a hard time imagining their future.
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