Michael Brenner

Michael Brenner is a Professor of International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh.

Kavanaugh Agonistes

On the Futility of American Politics

Leonardo: the $450 Million Man

Macron: the Sun President?

Grenfell Tower: All Fall Down

The Ghost in the Dream Machine

The Great Game: Power Politics or Free Play?

The Narcissism of Donald Trump

 “Fake News,” Runaway Technology & All That

American Foreign Policy in the Post-Trump Era

The Way We Were and Will Be

The New Ancien Regime Arrives in the White House

Silicon Valley: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso

Terrorism Redux

Who is Censoring Whom?

Is Hillary Clinton a War Monger?

Crime or Punishment: Why Wall Street Elites Don’t Do Time

A Trillion in Nukes: Obama Embraces the Bomb

Truth and Fiction in the Age of Trump

Through the Detective’s Lens

Hillary Clinton and the Race to Lose the White House

Obama’s America: Id, Ego and Super-Ego

The Islam Equals Terror Libel

Europe’s Crisis: Terror, Refugees and Impotence

Life in Post-Constitutional America: the Obama Factor

Back in the Iraq Quagmire

Kissinger Revisited

California Dreaming, Still

The Manufactured Myth of Bin Laden’s Death

America’s Safari to Nowhere

The CIA’s Road to Infamy

Obama, Putin and Ukraine

Iran and Obama

The CIA in Texas

The 2016 Presidential Race

The ISIS Panic

Obama and the Iraqi Gordian Knot

American Public Schools, RIP

The Militarization of Foreign Policy

World Energy Outlook

On Not Leaving Afghanistan

Why Hillary?

Sporting Time

NSA Does the Grand Tour

Kenya and the GWOT

Down and Out in London vs. Paris

The Only Alternative

The Return of Martin Indyk

The Exterminators

The Snowden Affair