John’s Newsletter
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The Underground Man (Part 1)
Jul 28, 202619 min
The Tariff Man Cometh
Jul 27, 202620 min
Foreign Affairs Fifteen: Episode 11
Jul 25, 202618 min
Iran Plays the Red Sea Card
Jul 24, 202619 min
Ready. Aim. Redemption.
Jul 22, 202619 min
Why Andy Burnham Will Fail (Part 2)
Jul 21, 202621 min
Andy Burnham is overwhelmingly likely to fail
Jul 20, 202624 min
Foreign Affairs Fifteen: Episode 10
Jul 18, 202619 min
The Greatest Vice: Cowardice in The Master and Margarita
Jul 14, 202628 min
Demography and the fading of neoconservatism
Jul 13, 202622 min
Foreign Affairs Fifteen (Episode 9)
Jul 11, 202618 min
The Donroe Doctrine is the great foreign policy success that no one is talking about
Jul 10, 202619 min
The Guy with the Nazi Tattoo
Jul 9, 202627 min
The Devil Went Down To..... Moscow?
Jul 8, 202626 min
Getting back to Eisenhower's NATO
Jul 6, 202627 min
Threats to the next 50 years of the American Republic
Jul 5, 202628 min
A Political Risk Analysis of the Glorious 4th
Jul 2, 202626 min
A first historical look at the Iran War
Jul 1, 202623 min
The Corpse in The Gilded Frame (Part II)
Jun 30, 202622 min
The Democrats are in danger of the Pauline Kael trap
Jun 29, 202621 min
The cruelty of European elites
Jun 28, 202623 min
Great Political Risk Movies: The Death of Stalin (2017)
Jun 26, 202621 min
Justice comes for Fauci
Jun 24, 202628 min
The Corpse in the Gilded Frame
Jun 23, 202630 min
With Starmer's predictable exit, the British Establishment continue rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic
Jun 22, 202620 min
Foreign Affairs Fifteen: Episode 6
Jun 21, 202617 min
Great Political Risk Movies: Zero Dark Thirty (2102)
Jun 19, 202627 min
Neocon pyromaniacs don’t get to tell realists how to put out the fire that they started
Jun 18, 202626 min
China has problems, too (Part 2)
Jun 17, 202619 min
A Better Middle East will form out of the ashes of the Iran War
Jun 16, 202622 min
At least Trump avoided the ghost of LBJ in ending the Iran War
Jun 15, 202619 min
Great Political Risk Movies: A Man for all Seasons (1966)
Jun 12, 202623 min
Foreign Affairs Fifteen: Episode 5
Jun 11, 202617 min
Pretenders to the Throne: 2028 Primary Contenders Ranked
Jun 10, 202627 min
Cut USAID funding and suddenly the developing world votes for Conservatives
Jun 9, 202623 min
The war from Iranian eyes
Jun 8, 202621 min
Foreign Affairs Fifteen: Episode 4
Jun 7, 202616 min
A midyear look at our 2026 political risk calls
Jun 6, 202617 min
The Iron Laws of Revolution
Jun 5, 202626 min
What we've learned in DC (Part 2)
Jun 4, 202633 min
The UK must stop tolerating the intolerable
Jun 3, 202622 min
Pretenders to the Throne: 2028 Primary Contenders Ranked
Jun 2, 202630 min
The Great Gatsby and Neo-Conservatism
Jun 1, 202625 min
DNC Post-Mortem: We Dug Up Our Own Grave and Blamed the Shovel
May 28, 202627 min
Special Episode: Foreign Affairs Fifteen
May 26, 20269 min
The ceasefire is the least bad option, but it is clear that Iran has won the war. Bravo, neocons!
May 24, 202617 min
Hellhound on his Trail, Part 3
May 22, 202627 min
Did Trump Kill Massie?
May 21, 202627 min
The Revolution is now: Drones are the future (and the present) of warfare
May 20, 202619 min
Foreign Affairs Fifteen: Episode 3
May 19, 202620 min