A new book offers a realist strategy for dealing with a region in rapid flux. The post The Middle East has Become the New ‘West Asia’ appeared first on The American Conservative .
Books The Middle East has Become the New ‘West Asia’ A new book offers a realist strategy for dealing with a region in rapid flux. (AFP via Getty Images) West Asia: A New American Grand Strategy in the Middle East, by Mohammad Soliman. Polity Books, 272 pages. The Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy laid out its vision for a new U.S. role in the Middle East based on a pragmatic scaling back from the ideological misadventures of prior years. Instead of attempting to reshape the countries of the Middle East through violence and money, the strategy advocated an orderly withdrawal from a region that has sapped tremendous American attention and resources since the First Gulf War. With the U.S. in theory departing for…Open
‘Lead Like Jael’ offers a third way for conservative young women. The post The Tradwife v. Girlboss War Is Over appeared first on The American Conservative .
Books The Tradwife v. Girlboss War Is Over ‘Lead Like Jael’ offers a third way for conservative young women. Credit: PickPik Lead Like Jael, by Emma Waters. Regnery Faith, 240 pages. Emma Waters begins her debut book Lead Like Jael with a familiar confession: “Five years ago, I was having an absolute meltdown over the thought of becoming a mother. I was convinced it would derail my career ambitions and leave me sad, alone, and irrelevant.” Yet, unlike the average New Yorker column, the plot twist in this book on Biblical womanhood is that Waters’s feelings about motherhood turned out to be false. Happiness was found not in career ambition nor a feminist cliche, but in submitting to wisdom. Lady Wisdom, that is: King Solomon’s…Open
George Saunders’s latest is an exercise in lefty moralizing. The post Nothing Worth Staying Up For appeared first on The American Conservative .
Books Nothing Worth Staying Up For George Saunders’s latest is an exercise in lefty moralizing. (Johnny Louis/FilmMagic) Vigil: A Novel, by George Saunders, Random House, 174 pages. G.K. Chesterton may or may not have actually said, “The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything,” but in this, the third decade of the 21st century, the words ring true. We might want to add a corollary: The first effect of not believing in sin, as traditionally defined by the major schools of religious and moral thought, is to believe in forms of “sin” that are no such thing. Thus, a not-insignificant percentage of the American population tolerates or supports the clear sin of abortion while making social taboos out of the…Open
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) is facing multiple investigations following allegations of serious sexual misconduct and immigration violations. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has opened a […] Source
A federal judge tossed President Trump’s defamation suit against The Wall Street Journal on Monday over a story it published detailing a letter Trump allegedly sent to disgraced sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday. Trump denies writing the letter and claims it was faked. But U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles ruled the president failed to allege “actual malice,” the high bar public figures must clear to pursue defamation claims. #trump #epsteinfiles #wallstreetjournal #law Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5828714-judge-dismisses-trump-wall-street-journal-lawsuit/
Deadly antisemitic attacks reached a 30-year high in 2025, according to a new worldwide study by Tel Aviv University. The findings come amid heightened tensions linked to Israel’s war in Gaza and follow deadly attacks like the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney Australia’s Bondi Beach area, underscoring growing fears within Jewish communities. #antisemitism #study #telavivuniversity #gazawar
