Ibrahim Al-Bakri Nyei, African Arguments
In a startling Afrobarometer survey earlier this year, 66% of Liberians said they are "unlikely" to try to get vaccinated against COVID-19. An even higher 86% said they believe "prayer is more effective than a vaccine in preventing coronavirus infection".
Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review
We can't obey our way to normalcy. That shouldn't surprise people as historically unruly as Americans. Obedience is often abnormal for us.
Robert Zaretsky, Forward
In an age already brimming with tragedies, we can add one more: at times of crisis, a democracy must use potentially undemocratic methods to save its citizens.
Nikolas Gvosdev, WPR
History does not repeat itself, as Mark Twain remarked, but it does rhyme. And when it comes to its policies on Russia, climate and energy, the Biden team is dealing with Obama-era echoes.
Nicolas Santolaria, Worldcrunch
In the midst of an ecological crisis, the octopus has become an object of fascination. This animal, once terrifying to the human imagination, is now recognized for its intelligence and ability to live in symbiosis with nature.
Edward White, Financial Times
For decades, Kuwait was a critical hub in North Korea's network of foreign outposts. Every year, thousands of labourers would take an Air Koryo flight from Pyongyang via Islamabad before being dispatched to construction sites across the oil-rich Gulf state or elsewhere in the Middle East and Africa.
Daniel Deudney & John G. Ikenberry, Survival
The Quincy coalition is driven by common adversaries rather than a shared vision of political order and society; liberal internationalism is more appropriate to contemporary global realities.
James Holmes, 1945
Restraint, a conception of statecraft, challenges principles that have shaped U.S. foreign policy for decades. Counterattacks are therefore unsurprising. They may even be a compliment, however inadvertent. The latest critique, by John Ikenberry and Daniel Deudney, two prominent self-declared liberal internationalists, appears in
