Aaron Bastani

Aug 11, 2026

Malta’s Warning for the West

Perched on Europe’s southernmost edge, Malta is an object lesson in the folly of lazy essentialism. A Catholic nation where devotees invoke Allah, the islands are home to...
Jul 21, 2026

Burnham’s Afternoon of the Long Knives

By the late afternoon, the announcements came with metronomic regularity, the great and the good of the last Cabinet eliminated. Rachel Reeves, gone.