Editor in chief

Editor in chief: Said Batrouni
PEN Name: Marcos Fidel
The return of imperial thinking in twenty-first century Europe
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 6 February 2026 Imperial thinking is often assumed to be a relic of the […]
Peter Mandelson’s Fall and the Peril It Poses to Sir Keir Starmer
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 6 February 2026 In the steadily shifting landscape of British politics, few figures have […]
Venezuela’s rare earth elements
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 6 February 2026 In the evolving geometry of contemporary geopolitics, Venezuela has once again […]
Kant, Newton, and Einstein: The Continuum of Thought from Metaphysics to Relativity
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 6 February 2026 The history of philosophy and physics are rarely parallel, yet at […]
A beautiful meal in Lviv
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 6 February 2026 I walked into the restaurant in the early evening, when the […]
Can the United States defend the Arctic alone?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 8 February 2026 The question of whether the United States Armed Forces presently possess […]
The situation in Sloviansk
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 6 February 2026 Sloviansk has spent much of this war living with an uncomfortable […]
Ukrainian engineers: struggling to keep the power on
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 5 February 2026 Winter has always been an adversary in Ukraine. Long before Russia’s […]
Russia’s shadow mail system
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 5 February 2026 Russia’s shadow mail system is one of the least visible yet […]
Has the Swiss National Bank been engaged in currency manipulation?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 5 February 2026 The decision by the United States Department of the Treasury to […]



