Danny Postel

One way of thinking about John Esposito is as the anti-Bernard Lewis. Although each had produced substantial and influential bodies of scholarship before 2001, they both shot to public prominence in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. But while Lewis claimed... See more

After nearly a decade of marathon streaming — seven to eight hours a day, seven days a week — this year Hasan Piker, hailed as “one of the most influential left-wing commentators in America,” has been spending less time in his home studio in Los Angeles a... See more

The conservative Catholic intelligentsia has been conspicuously quiet about President Donald Trump’s recent diatribes against Pope Leo XIV. Various right-leaning and pro-Trump American Catholics, in contrast, have expressed dismay about the president’s st... See more

Viktor Orbán’s defeat in Hungary’s election on Sunday to Péter Magyar of the center-right Tisza Party is widely seen as a repudiation not only of the prime minister’s 16 years in power, but of U.S. Vice President JD Vance, who went to Budapest to stump fo... See more

Viktor Orbán’s defeat in Hungary’s election on Sunday to Péter Magyar of the center-right Tisza Party is widely seen as a repudiation not only of the prime minister’s 16 years in power, but of U.S. Vice President JD Vance, who went to Budapest to stump fo... See more