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Burning Down the House
I’m driving back to the hotel after the conference dinner and Mark Blyth in the passenger seat is pointing energetically, urging me to make the left turn in his Scottish lilt, “Go! Go!”
I’m thinking, who is this dude?, and during the confe...
Seth Jones's The American Edge
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As the US-China competition intensifies, international security scholar Seth Jones warns that China is already well along the way toward mobilizing for war—while the United States remains on a peacetime footing.
Seth J...
Peace, Novelty, and the Normal Country
The Democratic Party has begun its search for a new foreign policy. The goal this time is simple. It is not to remake foreign policy per se. It is to help win the presidential election, which everyone agrees, will be the most important elec...
The Many Faces of Antisemitic Terrorism in the United States
In May 2026, the Department of Justice announced the arrest of a leader of Kataib Hezbollah, an Iraqi group with close ties to Iran. The U.S. government claims that the man, Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, planned to target synagogues...
A Front Row Seat at the Cost of Living Crisis
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Inflation has made a roaring comeback in the 2020s—as a political issue. Setting aside a one-year pandemic-driven outlier, widespread dissatisfaction with what, in historical perspective, were relatively...
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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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