Sean Durns

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

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Life in Weimar on the Edge of Catastrophe

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

As WWI Fades from Memory, its Lessons Are Relevant as Ever

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.

Zbigniew Brzezinski: The Fox to Kissinger’s Hedgehog

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

What Nuremberg Did and Did Not Accomplish

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

Israel is Right to ‘Cancel’ the UNRWA

The United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) cannot exist without ideologically and materially supporting terrorism against Israel

The U.S. is Losing in Lebanon

America needs to face the reality that Lebanon and Hezbollah are inextricably entangled

Uri Kaufman’s “Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East” 

A review of Uri Kaufman’s “Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East” 

Golda Meir: Israel’s Matriarch

Who was Golda Meir, Israel’s first and only female leader?