Mark Moyar wrote a fascinating editorial in The New York Times the other day. In “The World Fears Trump’s America. That’s a Good Thing,”
Author: Adam Levin
Adam Levin writes about politics and media, is a board member of the United Nations Association of St. Louis, and is an accomplished trombonist.
How does the revolution in Rojava fit into the Syrian Civil War?
With the advent of a Trump presidency fast approaching, the American Left appears despondent and discouraged. They may take potential hope from a series
The left has no answer for Syria
This year’s catastrophe of an election cycle has led some on the Left to seek refuge with Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein, and
Memes: A new form of old-school propaganda
We have to talk about memes. I’m not joking, I swear. It’s kind of disturbing how much of political discourse on social media is
America needs a new vision of foreign policy
The 2016 election cycle continues on its baffling way, but foreign policy issues have largely been neglected, with a few exceptions like ISIS. Each
How progressives can constructively engage Trump supporters
If you read one think piece aimed at breaking down the Trump phenomenon, I highly recommend Jonna Ivin’s essay on coming to terms with
20 years after Rwanda, genocide remains a “problem from Hell”
I just finished reading a book worth writing about in light of recent events in Africa and Iraq: Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire’s Shake Hands
Recent right-wing violence reeks of proto-Fascism
During my freshman year in college, my professor for “Political Ideologies” class made a pretty bold claim: “In the next fifty years,” he intoned,
“Fallout” [the game] and fallout [the nuclear reality]
“If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.” –Albert Einstein. Next month, “Fallout 4,” a highly-anticipated
National Review compares Bernie Sanders to Nazis: Offensive and inaccurate
Commentators cannot seem to leave the memory of Nazi Germany alone. Nazi comparisons became especially heinous after the 2008 presidential election, when haters compared