2018

• “Why Trump should 'get out of the way' and let Koreans make a deal on their own,” CNBC.com, April 27, 2018: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/27/why-trump-should-let-koreans-make-a-deal-on-their-own.html 

• “Never mind about John Bolton. Trump's ego could force a North Korea deal anyway,” CNN.com, March 29, 2018: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/29/opinions/forget-john-bolton-trumps-ego-will-want-want-a-deal-desch/index.html

• “No More Nukes: An Exchange,” Commonweal, February 9, 2018 at: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/no-more-nukes [with Gerald Powers].

2017

• “America’s (Dis) Regard for its Soldiers and Veterans,” The American Conservative, August 31, 2017 at: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/americas-dis-regard-for-its-veterans-soldiers/.

• “What Chairman Mao can teach the world about North Korea,” CNBC.com, August 11, 2017 at: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/11/why-a-nuclear-north-korea-is-not-the-end-of-the-world-commentary.html.

• “Mueller and the Russia investigation, another example of it's the cover-up, not the crime?” Foxnews.com, May 18, 2017 at: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/05/18/mueller-and-russia-investigation-another-example-its-cover-up-not-crime.html.

• Video Interview: “Why the Real North Korea Threat Isn't Its Nuclear Weapons,” Big Think, October 19, 2017. http://bigthink.com/videos/michael-desch-north-korea-threat-isnt-kim-jong-uns-nuclear-weapons. 

2016

• “Is America Being Crushed by the Weight of the World?” The National Interest September 11, 2016 at http://nationalinterest.org/print/feature/america-being-crushed-by-the-weight-the-world-17650.

• “Trump's invitation for Russian espionage is part of a bigger pattern,” CNBC.com, July 28, 2016 at: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/28/trumps-invitation-for-russian-espionage-is-part-of-a-bigger-pattern-commentary.html.

• “America First, or Trump?” U.S. News and World Report, April 28, 2016 at: http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-04-28/trumps-america-first-foreign-policy-only-reflects-his-self-interest

• “About Those Calls for Boots on the Ground ...,” CNN.com, January 21, 2016 at: http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/21/opinions/desch-boots-on-ground/index.html.
  

• “Why you shouldn't panic about North Korea's H-bomb,” CNBC.com, January 2, 2016 at: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/01/06/why-you-shouldnt-panic-about-north-koreas-h-bomb-commentary.html.

• “Saudi Arabia vs. Iran: America's Shia problem,” Foxnews.com, January 4, 2016 at: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/01/04/our-shia-problem.html.
  

2015

• “Is Putin More Realistic on Syria Than Obama,” CNN.com, December 1, 2015 at http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/01/opinions/desch-obama-advice-syria-strategy/.
  

• “Does Clinton's strategy for beating ISIS add up?” CNN.com, November 19, 2015 at: http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/19/opinions/desch-hillary-clinton-speech/.
  

• “Syria: Why we should let Putin put his hand in the hornet's nest,” Foxnews, October 23, 2015 at http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/10/23/why-should-let-putin-put-his-hand-in-hornets-nest.html.
  

• “How Popular is Peace?” The American Conservative November/December 2015, 19-23.
  

• “Show Some Restraint,” Notre Dame Magazine Spring 2015, 32-37.
  

2014

• “Is MH 17 Disaster Result of Tragic Blunder?” CCN.com, July 18, 2014 at: http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/17/opinion/desch-ukraine-plane-putin/.
  

• But If You Try Sometime, You (Might) Get (Some of) What You Need: A Response to Goldgeier, Weaver, and Peterson, International Studies Quarterly online forum, August 28, 2014 at: http://www.isanet.org/Publications/ISQ/Posts/ID/1420/You-Cant-Always-Get-What-You-Want-What-Policymakers-Learn-From-International-Relations-Scholars [with Paul Avey]

• “America First, or Trump?” U.S. News and World Report, April 28, 2016 at: http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-04-28/trumps-america-first-foreign-policy-only-reflects-his-self-interest
  

2011

• “Why Netanyahu cuts deals with Hamas, not Fatah,” Mondoweiss, October 20, 2011. 

• “Mission Accomplished?” The American Conservative, July 2011, 10-11. 

• “Former head British spook says Israeli intelligence couldn’t be trusted,” Mondoweiss, April 1, 2011.

• “Limited Liability Intervention,” The National Interest, March 14, 2011. 

• “The Importance of the Middle East Peace Process in U.S. Foreign Policy,” Big Think, March 8, 2011.

• “The Liberal Complex,” The American Conservative, February 2011, 9-10.

​2010

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• “Turkey’s doing It Without the Fez On,” The National Interest, October 26, 2010. 

• “Why have the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan been so corrosive of civil-military relations?” Foreign Policy.com. October 18, 2010. 

• “A Third Lebanon War?,” al Adab, Vol. 58, Nos. 9-10, 49 (Fall 2010): [Interview in Arabic].

• “It’s Not India,” Mondoweiss, July 10, 2010.

• “The Myth of Israeli Strategic Genius,” Mondoweiss, June 4, 2010.

• “Liberal Zionism, Oxymoron,” Mondoweiss, May 27, 2010.

• “Response to Scott McConnell, ‘Politics is a Matter of the Heart, Which is Why the BDS Social Movement is Important,’” Mondoweiss, May 10, 2010. 

• “Desch: Bloom Misses the Historical Shift in Antisemitism,”Mondoweiss, May 9. 2010. 

• “Divestment Diversion,” The American Conservative, June 2010, 37-39. 

2013

• “Neoconservatism Rebaptized,” The American Conservative, November/December 2013, 46-8. 

• “What comes next: Why secularism fooled me into thinking the two-state solution was likely,” Mondoweiss, November 6, 2013.

• “What Do Policymakers Want from Academics?” The Monkey Cage/Washington Post, September 25, 2013. 

• “Rank Irrelevance: How Academia Lost Its Way,” Foreign Affairs.com, September 15, 2013.  

• “Kenneth Waltz and the Power of Pure Theory,” The National Interest.org, May15, 2013.
  

2012

• “A Foreign Policy of Humility and Restraint,” Notre Dame Magazine Winter 2012/13, 20. 

• “Haaretz undermines a foundational myth: FDR abandoned Europe’s Jews,” Mondoweiss, November 5, 2012. 

• “Bibi’s Chutzpah: The Israeli Prime Minister Crosses a Red Line,” Foreign Affairs.com, September 19, 2012. 

• “Exorcising George McGovern: How the GOP lost its foreign-policy advantage,” The American Conservative, August 2012, 89. 

• “Mr. President, Don’t Salute the Troops this 4th of July,” Foreign Policy.com, July 4, 2012. 
  

• “Why Hasn’t Jonathan Pollard Applied for Parole?” Mondoweiss, June 15, 2012.

• “Inside The Ivory Tower,” Foreign Policy, Jan/Feb 2012.

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