James Poulos is a writer and political commentator known for his work on politics, culture, and foreign affairs. He contributed essays and analysis to The Weekly Standard between 2006 and 2011, covering topics ranging from Kosovo and Russian geopolitics to architecture and the death penalty debate. He has also written for numerous other publications and is known for his work in digital media.
Vlad’s at it again. Floating plans for a new ‘Eurasian Union’, Putin has given the West a telling new glimpse at the kind of foreign policy it ought to expect when, as expected, Dmitri Medvedev returns the presidency in March.
Troy Davis is dead, but not forgotten. This past weekend, over 1,000 mourners attended the funeral of the convicted murderer recently executed by the state of Georgia. Elsewhere, the frantic round of point-counterpoint surrounding his execution suggests our long-running national argument over…
REMEMBER KOSOVO? The little statelet of 2 million, still technically an "integral part" of Serbia, was the inspiration for an unprecedented NATO campaign, the first of its kind: bombing, in those less sensitive times, Christian troops on Easter. The prevention of genocide and the resulting…
THERE'S NO MORE OCTOBER EXCUSE. Not anymore. If it's Halloween, once ran the tagline, it must be "Saw"--an annual celebration of torture, dismemberment, and Snowden's secret from Catch-22: "The spirit gone, man is garbage." How fast the spirit departs nowadays--holiday spirit or no. The latest…
THE POLARIZING CONCEIT of Marie Antoinette, legacy celebrity Sofia Coppola's latest feature film, is that the French royal scene at its height and last gasp is best understood as teen drama. "It is about teenagers in Versailles, so I wanted it to have a teenage feeling," Coppola has mused. "The…