“Hamas will likely survive a major Israeli operation in Rafah if a major operation occurs. Hamas infiltrated and then rebuilt itself in areas that the IDF withdrew from in December 2023 and April 2024”

understandingwar.org/backgrounder/i…

These books changed my life. They are extraordinary translations.

This episode is fabulous!

Ronald Reagan called the Israeli PM Begin in 1982 during the siege of Beirut and which caused the Israeli government to immediately stop the bombing of Beirut and allowed the PLO to leave the city.

This isn’t even the first time a U.S. President has done this.

Ted Kooser

One of the most enjoyable Manifesto! episodes ever. w/Tara Isabella Burton (HERE IN AVALON out now) , Phil Klay and Jacob Siegel

open.spotify.com/episode/2UFO7D…

Today's Lawfare Daily is a lecture Benjamin Wittes delivered at the Watson Institute on the Israel-Gaza war, the implications for U.S. foreign and domestic policy, the moral context of the war, and how the war could affect U.S. presidential elections. lawfaremedia.org/article/lawfar…

“Then there’s the supposedly “smart” and “successful” part of Trump’s diplomacy, the push for normalization of relations with the Gulf States while trying to totally ignore the Palestinian issue. This was always a recipe for disaster…”

For The Atlantic, I wrote about the importance of forgoing euphemism and calling things what they are. Journalists should offer some perspective on what average student protesters want - and information about what the organizing groups actually demand.
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Hannah Dreier The New York Times Sarah Stillman The New Yorker Sarah Conway City Bureau Invisible Institute Reuters The Washington Post Katie Engelhart NYT Magazine Vladimir Kara-Murza Justin Chang Los Angeles Times David E. Hoffman The Associated Press Yohance Lacour ProPublica Josh Kaplan Justin Elliott Brett Murphy Alex Mierjeski Kirsten Berg Eboni Booth Roundabout Basic Books UT Austin Jonathan Eig Farrar,Straus&Giroux Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster Cristina Rivera Garza Hogarth Books Random House Group University of Houston Georgia Review UGA Press UC San Diego Nathan Thrall Metropolitan Books Tyshawn Sorey G.Schirmer & Associated Music Publishers Atlanta Symphony Penn Congratulations to Jayne Anne Phillips and Alfred A. Knopf. #Pulitzer

New episode of the pod is out!! Steve Karian and I try to make the case for a new kind of Swiftie.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sac…

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from IN PARENTHESIS:

Kirkus gives At the Edge of Empire a starred review! 'Fascinating, ambitiously textured narrative....Wong capably interweaves intimate details with broader truths. A well-written, multilayered work...poignant...' kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/e… Pre-order now: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/602734/a…

New episode with Michael Kofman just dropped warontherocks.com/2024/05/what-w…

PEN America deplores Israel’s decision to shutter Al Jazeera’s operations. Amid already grossly inadequate media access, this decision denies citizens access to information and perspectives that should not be suppressed.

Our April 2 statement: pen.org/press-release/…

“The soldiers marched, the cowards wept, and all were wetted down and winded, crushed.
Soldiers turn the dew to mud.”

“Some died, and how I will not tell, since I should speak of weather.”

Alan Dugan - Notes Toward a Spring Offensive
open.substack.com/pub/petercatap…

In memory of Kierkegaard on his birthday, a poem from R.S. Thomas:

„Russian military production capacity has expanded but will reach a plateau by early 2026, he reckons, due to shortages in material and engineers. Both sides could eventually run out of weapons. But if nothing changes in other respects, Ukraine will run out first.“