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 […]

06.02.2026

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 […]

06.02.2026

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 […]

06.02.2026

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 […]

06.02.2026

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 […]

06.02.2026

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 […]

06.02.2026

The situation in Sloviansk

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 6 February 2026 Sloviansk has spent much of this war living with an uncomfortable […]

05.02.2026

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 […]

05.02.2026

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 […]

05.02.2026

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 […]

05.02.2026