Retreat, Regroup, and Reinvest in a Realist Foreign Policy
Donald Trump’s administration has allowed the United States to renegotiate its orientation to the rest of the world. Partisans have sniped in contradictory ways, criticizing […]
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Making Korean Lemonade
Donald Trump bought a Korean lemon in 2018. Last week, he made some lemonade. By walking out on his second summit with North Korean dictator […]
The Space Force Is No Laughing Matter
Steve Carrell is set to star in a new comedy for Netflix called “Space Force.” Dubbed by the show’s creators (Carrell and British comedy writer-producer […]
Trump Notwithstanding, U.S. Deploys Only Words Against Missiles
Official Washington has refused to defend America against ballistic missiles, especially from Russia and China, while spending some $300 billion pretending to be trying. For […]
Dear Libertarians: Trade Deficits Matter
Steve Hanke recently set out to prove “why President Trump’s trade message and protectionist policies are rubbish” in a Forbes article. Instead, the Johns Hopkins […]
Trump Deserves Credit for China’s Changing Stance on Trade
President Trump is gaining the advantage over China in his long-term trade strategy, proving the naysayers wrong with his decision to use tariffs as leverage. […]
Chinese Biotech Threatens America
Modern medical science is simply extraordinary. The advent of biotechnology has allowed for truly innovative research, discovering cures for some of the most complex and […]
Actually, 2018 Was a Pretty Good Year
The year 2018 will be deplored by pundits as a bad year of more unpredictable Donald Trump, headlined by wild stock market gyrations, the melodramas […]
Merry Christmas—We’re All Gonna Die (Again)!
One of the less salubrious effects of the anti-social network is how everything and anything is deemed the end of the world and, logically, the […]
Here’s Why the Huawei Arrest Helps Negotiations with China
Wall Street is worried that the arrest of Huawei Vice Chairman Meng Wanzhou will put President Trump’s ongoing trade negotiations with China on ice. They […]
The Eagle and the Dragonfly: How Google Threatens Freedom
Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s recent congressional testimony capped a deservedly rough year for the embattled search giant. While Pichai largely avoided any major missteps in […]
Break Up Google for the Public Good
It’s time for all of us to admit that Alphabet, Inc. is the 21st century equivalent of Ma Bell: it is an almost all-controlling monopoly […]
Free the Kidnapped Canadians in Communist China
Last week, we discussed the national security threat to the United States and her siblings in the family of free nations that is posed by […]
America: China’s Mercantile Resource Colony
China’s economy is now the largest on earth. Its industrial output is triple that of the United States. Its population, quadruple. To make matters worse, […]
Communist China’s Huawei: ‘Déjà Vu All Over Again’
Back in the fall of 2007, I went on the U.S. House floor and locked horns with Communist China’s Huawei technology company and its American […]
Trump and Xi’s G20 Meeting Is An Opportunity for Self-Reflection
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. Sun Tzu dictated this truism in The Art of War in the 5th […]
Americans Need Protection from Chinese Hackers
Earlier this fall, the United States issued reports and warnings that hackers with backing from the Chinese government and military pose serious cyber-threats to U.S.-based […]
Rethinking Free Trade on the Campaign Trail
Eight hours before the first polls closed on November 8, 2016, the late Charles Krauthammer appeared on Fox News and made a prediction. Should Trump […]
Dear Liberals: People Aren’t Commodities
Afraid his son would steal his throne, Dionysius I, Tyrant of Syracuse, locked the boy away in a tower. Never leaving his prison, the boy […]
Pesky Russian Agent Threatens Russia with Nukes
The long-running narrative of “collusion” between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russian intelligence peddled by hack journalists and entitled former U.S. “intelligence” officials has […]