Sean Durns is a Washington D.C. based foreign affairs writer and the deputy commentary editor for the Washington Examiner. His work has appeared in Providence, Newsweek, the Washington Times, the Washington Free Beacon, Newsweek, the New York Sun, Commentary, Mosaic, National Review and elsewhere. He can be found on X @SeanDurns
Katja Hoyer’s new book uses the town of Weimar to humanize an often-overlooked chapter of German history: the brief, tragic life of the Weimar Republic
Sean DurnsMay 12, 2026
More than a century after its end, the memory of World War I remains haunting. But as Odd Arne Westad argues in his book, “The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict, and Warnings from History”, the real problem is that it isn’t haunting us enough.
Sean DurnsApril 15, 2026
Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor to Carter, foresaw the downfall of the Soviet Union when others couldn’t because he understood that Moscow always lacked moral legitimacy among the peoples of Eastern Europe
Sean DurnsJanuary 20, 2026
Despite the mythology that has surrounded the Nuremberg trials, the truth is that many were all too happy to let numerous Nazis escape Europe and to then offer them protection
Sean DurnsDecember 5, 2025
The United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) cannot exist without ideologically and materially supporting terrorism against Israel
Sean DurnsNovember 22, 2024
America needs to face the reality that Lebanon and Hezbollah are inextricably entangled
Sean DurnsMarch 8, 2024
A review of Uri Kaufman’s “Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East”
Sean DurnsOctober 13, 2023
Who was Golda Meir, Israel’s first and only female leader?
Sean DurnsSeptember 7, 2023