China and South Korea Are Screwing Us (Let’s Return the Favor)
President Trump has demanded that China take steps to counter the growing threat on the Korean Peninsula. Beijing, it appears, is finally answering that call, […]
NeverTrumping to Oblivion
Every few generations, American politics undergoes an intense realignment. Today, America is experiencing a consequential change in its politics. Scholar and writer, F.H. Buckley, refers […]
Restoring American Leadership to Beat Back ISIS
The United States has enjoyed a major strategic victory in the seeming endless Global War on Terrorism: the Islamic State has been crushed. Oh, you […]
Deregulate Space
America’s foreign policy, unfortunately, seems to be governed by a latent utopianism. The last 17 years have shown the dangers inherent in a starry-eyed approach […]
Free Kurdistan Now
The Kurds are the largest stateless people in the world. Their population exists in a contiguous territory spanning across present-day Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. […]
Don’t Worry About the Russo-Saudi Deal
Saudi Arabia has signed an historic deal with the Russian Federation. This deal covers a host of important interests that the two powers share—everything from […]
America Must Innovate or Die
America is in decline. Since the end of the Cold War—thanks to the fecklessness of our political and business leaders—every single competitive advantage that the […]
European Elites Should be Mindful of the “Spirit of 1848”
In his fantastic history of Europe, “The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914,” Cambridge scholar Richard J. Evans argues: The pursuit of power permeated European society […]
Revolutions Make Strange Bedfellows
Hugh Hefner, the legendary founder of Playboy, died this week at the age of 91, proving once-and-for-all the adage that “only the good die young.” […]
Trump’s Syria Policy is About Containing Iran
The United States has taken the fight to ISIS and other jihadists who have wrought chaos in Syria and Iraq since 2013. In the nine […]
Trump and the End of the Status Quo
From the very beginning of Donald Trump’s presidency, his critics have complained, “This is not normal!” At some point, it may dawn on them just […]
Foreign Policy Elites Don’t Have Superpowers
Like so many members of what Michael Walsh aptly calls the “Permanent Bipartisan Fusion Party,” leading neoconservative Eliot A. Cohen still doesn’t get what happened […]
Trump, the Republicans, and 2018
President Trump recently shocked the Republican establishment by making a deal with the Democrats over the debt ceiling. The logic behind the move was, if […]
America is Losing the Education Race Against China—Bigly
We are no longer living in the unipolar world of the immediate post-Cold War period. This is especially clear when it comes to observing the […]
Nukes for Japan and South Korea? Yes—Here’s Why
Millions of Americans own a gun. About four in 10 U.S. households, in fact, have at least one firearm. People own guns for all sorts […]
Unstoppable Easternization?
The Financial Times’ Gideon Rachman has written an excellent new book, Easternization: Asia’s Rise and America’s Decline from Obama to Trump. “The central issue,” Rachman […]
Picking Up the Pieces of the Trump Agenda
Donald J. Trump campaigned on a necessarily radical approach to governing: he would listen to the vast majority of the American people and enact policies […]
A Blank Check for Afghanistan
The trouble with the new (or, rather, not-so-new) Trump Administration war plan for Afghanistan is that it’s a loser. Sure, the president gets high marks […]
U.S. Out of Afghanistan: Here’s How
The ongoing war in Afghanistan—America’s longest (and most expensive) conflict to date—is a mess and the military has no idea how to clean it up. […]
Don’t Let Venezuela Distract from the North Korea Crisis
President Donald J. Trump has marched headlong into another escalating crisis—this time with the imploding Venezuela. And this one is altogether avoidable. Although the growing […]