Reading archive 2026-03-07

The Gulf Countries Can’t Take Much More: Iran is exposing their vulnerabilities.

Something New Is Happening in Lebanon: For the first time, the country’s government is directly confronting a weakened Hezbollah.

America’s and Israel’s Goals Are Already Colliding: Trump and Netanyahu seem to have very different ideas about how the war should end.

‘We Need to Do McCarthyism to the Tenth Power’: Conservative influencers are pushing for a return to the dark days of 1950s inquisitions. - "Some of the tactics that the McCarthy revivalists propose are more aggressive than anything McCarthy pursued. 'McCarthy, for all of his obvious flaws, was still predicated on the use of the judicial system,' David Austin Walsh, a historian at the University of Virginia, told me. Should this new McCarthyism veer into proposing or doing anything violent, Walsh added, it 'isn't even really McCarthyism anymore-it's just fascism.'"