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America’s Samurai Myth
In January, with the Trump administration considering war with Iran, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) published a piece under a headline that produced, for me at least, a post-traumatic flashback to 2013. “Don’t make the mist...
Root Beer, River Bluffs, and Mass Surveillance
Photo by Burak Başgöze
Winona, Minnesota, my hometown, is best known for its beautiful scenery, high-quality root beer, and giving Winona Ryder her first name—a connection that briefly put the town in the national spotlight when Ryder retu...
Fight at the Museum
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In July, President Trump signed an executive order directing the National Park Service to put up signs on the federal sidewalks outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The signs are...
The Thinker challenges the conventional wisdom
The Thinker has always challenged the conventional wisdom.
Challenging received wisdom is the first duty of a Thinker because, as everyone knows, the conventional wisdom is always wrong.
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Is the Academy Preparing America for its National Security Challenges?
The rise of China, the spread of AI-driven weapons systems, the spread of authoritarianism, and other security challenges demand forms of knowledge that cannot be surged or improvised in a crisis: language skills, regional expertise, histor...
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Editor in chief of Blue Blaze. Dartmouth professor. Fellow at Chatham House, London and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard. Mom and Ridgeback mom.
Jonathan Kirshner is a Professor at Boston College. His books include An Unwritten Future: Realism and Uncertainty in World Politics, and Hollywood's Last Golden Age: Politics, Society and the Seventies Film in America.
I teach at Georgetown University and am a senior fellow at CSIS.
Director of Research at the European Council on Foreign Relations
I run this podcast and substack
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