In March 2025 a travel writer, Simon Buckby, published a guide called “The Arabian Peninsula is waking up and opening up.” The whole peninsula was opening, it said, except Yemen, “still stuck in civil war.” A single tourist visa for […]
There is a habit of treating liberty and democracy as one thing with two names. Hold elections and freedom follows; where freedom is missing, elections are the cure. The last thirty-five years have been hard on that habit. […]
On Saturday a Houthi missile hit Riyadh's international airport for the third time in a week. Saudi Arabia says at least twelve people were killed and about three hundred wounded, the deadliest attack on the kingdom in more than a […]
Murray Bookchin died in 2006, believing his politics had mostly failed to find an audience. Twenty years later his idea, that free people should govern themselves in face-to-face assemblies and federate their towns instead of submitting to a state, has […]
Before it was Silicon Valley, the Santa Clara Valley had another name. Promoters in the early twentieth century called it the Valley of Heart's Delight: miles of prune, apricot, peach, and cherry orchards between the bay and the hills, among […]
Bab al-Mandab at night. On the Arabian shore, oil works burn in tall ragged sheets of flame, storage tanks and a pipeline standing black against the glow, a smaller fire further down the coast where a pumping station has been […]
"Unsafe Safety" argued that "safety" earns the deference it currently gets for free only when a claim survives being checked — a stated mechanism, a measurable harm, a cost that's actually been weighed, and a review process that puts the […]
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