Category: Bibliography

“The challenge will be to overcome Russia’s tried-and-tested method of cynically exploiting negotiations to gain military advantage,” write @nfergus and @WarIntellectual:

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/12/trump-russia-ukraine-talks/680934/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYe7DhKUzfv9hzZruvj6HGlY&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

When fear spreads in a society, powerful people who know better are often the first to show their weakness. Sycophancy has momentum, @AdrienneLaF writes, but so does courage.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/03/washington-post-bezos-trump-cartoon-ann-telnaes/681406/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYSC8Fici_nFSsnJor_Bj1Ig&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Trump must decide between “a humiliating strategic defeat on the global stage and immediately redoubling American support for Ukraine. The choice will determine not only the fate of Ukraine but also the success of his presidency,” Robert Kagan writes:

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/01/trump-putin-ukraine-russia-war/681228/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYZIUu_s7CoRjld3UaectAVw&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

America has entered a new political era: the Trump Reaction. George Packer on what comes next, and the two Democratic delusions that brought us here:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/01/trump-reelection-voter-demographic-change/680752/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYcbaAryNMJfrdfv13_osw4Y&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

How did evangelicals, once culturally confident, become an anxious minority seeking political protection from the least traditionally religious president in living memory? @mjgerson reports

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/04/the-last-temptation/554066/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYTdTHQ6GMRNbLyZvDHPOR-w&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social