Guest Posts

Guest contributions exploring intelligence, history, and culture, including art’s role in Cold War espionage.

  1. Art as Espionage in Cold War America

    This article by art historian Dr. Julia Tatiana Bailey examines the weaponization of visual arts during the Cold War, detailing how the United States and the Soviet Union utilized contrasting movements—Abstract Expressionism and Socialist Realism—as instruments of psychological warfare.

  2. U.S. Objections to the Afghan Taliban: Ends, Ways, or Means?

  3. Carlos

  4. Dereliction of Duty

  5. Ambassador Lukman Faily on Iraq's Future, the Travel Ban, and ISIS

  6. Book Excerpt: The Embassy: A Story of War and Diplomacy

  7. Jihad: As It Was Truly Intended

  8. Marie von Clausewitz: A Biography of a Wider Experience

  9. Ungoverned Spaces: What Threat do they Pose?

  10. Julia Tatiana Bailey: Visual Artists and the Politics of Surveillance in Post-Privacy America

  11. Phil Walter: Behavior Change and the Instruments of Power

  12. Matthias Pfau: Tutanota and the Battle Against Mass Surviellance