Category Archives: Foreign Affairs

THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE – MARCH 20, 2026

New Statesman | UK Politics & Culture Magazine

THE NEW STATESMAN: The latest issue features ‘The new world war’ – Why the battle for Ukraine and Iran is coming for us all.

The new world war

Why the battle for Iran and Ukraine is coming for us all. By Will Lloyd

The battle for the Strait of Hormuz

Iran has discovered a new weapon, much more powerful than its nuclear programme. By Katie Stallard

Thomas Heatherwick and architecture’s culture war

Britain’s most divisive designer on Labour’s lack of “cultural confidence”, housebuilding, and what makes a beautiful building. By Anoosh Chakelian

COMMENTARY MAGAZINE – APRIL 2026 PREVIEW

April 2026 – Commentary Magazine

COMMENTARY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘IRANAMOK’ – ISRAEL HAS BEEN PREPARING FOR THIS FOR A GENERATION.

Regime Change Without Nation Building

by Jonathan Schanzer

America and Israel are at war with Iran, a fact that should be neither shocking nor surprising. Both countries have been targeted by the Islamic Republic since its inception in 1979. Both countries have engaged in painful battles with the regime’s proxies. Both nations battled Iran for 12 days last year; Israel targeted nuclear assets and other key military targets, paving the way for a crescendo of American strikes that hammered Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

They Should Have Listened to My Dad

by John Podhoretz

Editor’s Commentary

One American-Israeli Battle After Another

by Eli Lake

The Case for Trump’s War Is the Case for Bush’s War

by Tod Lindberg

Washington’s Foremost Con Artist

by James Kirchick

Washington Commentary

THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE – MARCH 13, 2026

The Great British Crisis

THE NEW STATESMAN: The latest issue features ‘The Great British Crisis’…

Don’t let Britain decline

By John Bew

John Healey: Labour needs the “broadest group” in government

By Ailbhe Rea

Make porn expensive again

By Pippa Bailey

The rise of British Muslims

By Tam Hussein

PROSPECT MAGAZINE —— APRIL 2026 PREVIEW

PROSPECT MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘This Guilded Age’ – America has entered a new Gilded Age, in which a few individuals have immense wealth and apparently unaccountable power. David Aaronovitch warns us of the potential consequences of their carelessness

The new Gilded Age

The world is once again run by men with immense wealth. We should be frightened of their unaccountable power

The Modi cinematic universe

Imaan Irfan

To Arcadia or Transylvania? Theatre’s fork in the road

Kate Maltby

Epstein and the bodies in the pool

Could this idea save the Democrats?

FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE – MARCH/APRIL 2026

FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘THE NEW AMERICAN HEGEMONY’

The Predatory Hegemon

How Trump Wields American Power by Stephen M. Walt

The Age of Kleptocracy

Geopolitical Power, Private Gain by Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon

The Globalist Delusion

Why America Must Build a New Operating System by Nadia Schadlow

COMMENTARY MAGAZINE – MARCH 2026 PREVIEW

Commentary Magazine – A Jewish magazine of politics, high culture, cultural  and literary criticism, American and Israeli campaigns and elections, and  world affairs.

COMMENTARY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘We Jews Have The Honor Of Being Hated’…

We Jews Have the Honor of Being Hated

Jews must cease hoping to solve anti-Semitism and make their own way forward by Bret Stephens

The Chutzpah of Yoram Hazony

by James Kirchick

‘Zio’ Is the New ‘N-Word’

The Pornography of Anti-Semitism

THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE-JANUARY 30, 2026

How we escape Trump

THE NEW STATESMAN: The latest issue features ‘How We Escape Trump’…

How we escape Trump

By New Statesman

Ice and Donald Trump’s regime of violence

The age of Trump has twisted the American psyche beyond recognitionBy Lee Siegel

Britain needs a Gaullist leader

By Paul Ovenden

How a single call sealed Andy Burnham’s fate

By Ailbhe Rea

The turn to Europe is inevitable

By Andrew Marr

At the Harry Potter studios, I find the last remnants of Britain’s moral authority

By Finn McRedmond

PROSPECT MAGAZINE – MARCH 2026 PREVIEW

Prospect's latest issue hits newsstands today! Here's a peek at what's  inside... 1/7 🧵 For the cover essay of his first issue as Prospect's new  editor, @PhilipJCollins1 surveys the wreckage of the

PROSPECT MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Is the party over?’ In his first issue as editor, Philip Collins traces the collapse of traditional British political parties—and what happens next. Jen Stout examines what makes a Ukrainian traitor. Plus: behind the scenes of Ralph Fiennes’ operatic debut

How culture wars hurt the economy

Ben Ansell

What makes a traitor?

Jen Stout

Feminists against progress

James Bloodworth

From the heart: Ralph Fiennes and the making of ‘Eugene Onegin’

Fiammetta Rocco

The unknowable Vermeer

Christopher Bray

What would you give up for happiness?

Imogen West-Knights

NATIONAL REVIEW MAGAZINE – MARCH 2026 PREVIEW

NATIONAL REVIEW: The latest issue features ‘America At 250’

The Five Greatest Words in the Declaration

Gordon S. Wood

How the founding document made America.

America the Durable

Yuval Levin

How Americans underrate their achievement.

How Religious Liberty Sustained America

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

On the Founders’ first freedom.

What I Learned from the Founders

Richard Brookhiser

On politics, the people, and great men.