Editor's Picks
A Pinch of Salt: The case against optimism for North Korea
We shouldn't be too optimistic about the potential for a denuclearized North Korea under Kim Jong Un.
Rebutting Relativism in Beit Shemesh
Marina is right to note that the West is far from blameless in its routine objectification of women as sex objects. But let’s not rush to draw equivalencies with religious fundamentalists.
From the Magazine
Afghanistan in the Media
Media coverage of, interest in, and justification for America's longest-running war.
By Sandra Korn
China’s Ambitious Future in Space
As China Announces Bold New Plans for its Space Program, the United States Considers the Possible Militarism of the Space Race
Beit Shemesh, Misogyny, and Building a Jewish Democracy
Neither the ultra-Orthodox nor the secular sector in Israel is innocent of gender discrimination.
After Kim Jong-il: The Chinese Take
China has already shown how the influence it has over North Korea can be used to promote policy change.
2011: Five Things I Learned This Year
I’ll speak as a humble world editor and share five things that I learned about the world in 2011, ranging from common fallacies about the Arab Spring to the shape of the human evolutionary family tree.
A Year for Killing Dictators?
Fatigue is about the most natural cause of death I can think of. Nonetheless, in the past few hours, Kim Jong-Il’s death has repeatedly been compared to the recent politicized deaths of other anti-American global leaders.
China and Belarus: A Special Relationship
The People’s Republic keeps Europe’s last dictatorship afloat
Delusions of Sovereignty
The choice Europe faces is not between a less integrated and a more integrated Eurozone, but between an effectively integrated Eurozone or none at all.
The True Governments of Somalia
Somaliland may be the most stable and smoothest functioning democracy that officially does not exist.
