The Normalization of Jeremy Corbyn Donald Trump isn’t the only leader in the West seemingly incapable of calling out political violence. Less than a week before the president conspicuously neglected to denounce neo-Nazis and spoke of “violence on many sides” in Charlottesville, Virginia, British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn was asked if he condemned the violence perpetrated by the left-wing...
How FIFA Explains the World Last week’s indictment and arrest of seven FIFA officials on corruption charges has been hailed around the world as a much-needed step in cleaning up international soccer. For years even casual observers of the league could not help but notice that there was something deeply awry in the dealings of this organization, ostensibly committed to...
A Crank Theory of Seymour Hersh Over the weekend Seymour Hersh published his latest interminably long investigative bombshell—and it’s a doozy. The 2011 killing of Osama Bin Laden by U.S. special operations forces, Hersh alleges, was an elaborately produced bit of national security theater. Contrary to claims by Obama administration officials, senior members of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence were fully aware of...