Slate's War Stories columnist; jazz critic; author of A Capital Calamity (a novel), The Bomb, Dark Territory, The Insurgents, 1959, The Wizards of Armageddon
Joined July 2009
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Why Putin's call for a US-Russia-China summit is a plot for Ukraine's surrender.slate.com/news-and-politics/…
Trump sold out his allies for Putin. But there is an even worse betrayal (my latest column for The iPaper) inews.co.uk/news/world/trump…
Trump's betrayal of Lindsey Graham--and what other Republicans should learn from it. slate.com/news-and-politics/…
What did the big-nothing Trump-Xi summit mean? slate.com/news-and-politics/…
My @Tracking_Angle review of a vinyl reissue of a great '86 trio concert-album with Michel Petrucciani, Wayne Shorter & Jim Hall. trackingangle.com/music/a-to…
Trump's atrocious but irrelevant UN speech. slate.com/news-and-politics/…
My latest column in The iPaper: Rubio vs Vance in 2028--how they're politically dealing with the Iran war now. inews.co.uk/news/world/vance…
What's this talk about US weapons in space, and what do they say about a new arms race. slate.com/news-and-politics/…
Hey, @WineDiarist, Fred Kaplan (@fmkaplan) here, @Slate ‘s War Stories columnist here. Can you blast me a DM? Then I’ll send you my email. I’d like to talk with you about something.
RIP Jay Maisel, the wondrous photographer. The documentary about him, "Jay Myself," is one of the great works about creativity. nytimes.com/2026/09/11/arts/…
I was at the twin towers on 9/11. I never imagined how the world would change.(Slate’s reprint of my reflections 5 years ago) slate.com/news-and-politics/…
How Trump unwittingly told the Iranians (and others) that they should get some nuclear weapons as fast as they can. slate.com/news-and-politics/…
My @Tracking_Angle review of eccentric jazz pianist Ran Blake’s “Voices,” his late-career triumph, on John Zorn’s Tzadik label.
trackingangle.com/music/ran-…
Kushner & Witkoff's appalling trip to Moscow and Kyiv. slate.com/news-and-politics/…
My latest column in London's The iPaper: the basic vital things that Trump doesn't know. inews.co.uk/news/world/trump…
Trump mulls declaring victory and ending the war. Good idea. slate.com/news-and-politics/…
A leak of a recent report tells us the top generals and admirals are worried about how deeply the Iran war is degrading our military—and about the turmoil set off by Hegseth’s chaotic reign. slate.com/news-and-politics/…
Trump's America struts and frets on the world stage alone (cases in point: the Canada trade fiasco and the toothless economic D-Day against Iran). slate.com/news-and-politics/…
It's a high bar, but this is the stupidest, most dangerous thing Hegseth has done. Abolishing the Army's drone unit and restoring it to the "core mission" of airborne infantry is just nuts. Drone warfre is the new "core mission." wsj.com/politics/national-se…
