9/11 at Twenty-Five
The New Yorker 6 Sep 2026

9/11 at Twenty-Five

Goddammit, I’d thought. No phones in class. Then someone gasped, and someone shrieked, and someone called out that he’d received a text from his sister in New York, and the towers…

Japan’s Strategic Turn
The Atlantic 6 Sep 2026

Japan’s Strategic Turn

The country is taking once-unthinkable steps to ensure its own defense. When I first visited Japan more than 30 years ago, the Cold War had ended, China had not yet risen, and the…