Martin Peretz

What does progressive foreign policy actually accomplish on the ground?

In our divided society, with few unifying assumptions among different groups, politics has abandoned concrete proposals for the vague spiritual ideals of an administrative ruling class

The illusions and realities of American foreign policy in the Middle East from Oslo to Cairo to Trump and beyond

Will we see a Democratic candidate like him—practically inclined to the liberal center, with a coherent moral outlook that used to be informed by a decent left—in the 2020 election cycle?

‘Nat’ to his friends, Glazer, who died Saturday at 95, was among the last of the original New York intellectuals and a remarkable thinker who never lost touch with how ideas affected real people’s lives

And why Trump’s military pullout represents not a new direction in foreign affairs but a coarse coda to a decade of institutional error

An accounting of the Democrats’ legacy in the Middle East, and where they can go from here

On the Super Bowl-winning owner of the New England Patriots, dining companion of the president, and ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’