Shay Khatiri

Shay Khatiri
Shay Khatiri has a decade of experience as a foreign and defense policy professional and writer, including at the Yorktown Institute and Jewish Institute for National Security of America. He is an immigrant from Iran and studied strategic studies and international economics at Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, where he was the Ambassador Andreas Baum fellow. He and his bulldog Tank reside in Arizona.

Newsweek Covers an Anti-BDS Bill and Hardly Does Better than Claude Would Have

The core question is whether an institution, including a university, that is undermining federal policy is entitled to federal money. This is a precedented issue, and the federal government under Democratic and Republican administrations has used its Title IX prerogatives to compel universities to follow federal policy, including issues concerning expression. Universities that do not accept federal money are entirely immune from federal policy.

Anti-Strategic Thinking at Foreign Policy

“Reduced U.S. interests in the Middle East” is a fantasy, stemming from the illusion of U.S. oil independence. One would think that rising gas prices would have ended this myth by now after exposing how U.S. prices still reflect global production. On top of that, U.S. allies and partners in Asia and Europe, which Walldorf elevates as priorities, need Middle Eastern oil for their own economies.