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 […]
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 […]
Editor’s Note: This essay was originally published in the Fall 2001 edition of the Claremont Review of Books. The editors are grateful for permission from […]
Strategy is neither more nor less than a map for getting from here to there—a reasonable plan for using what you have to accomplish what […]
It is an open secret in Washington, D.C. that China, to put it mildly, is “ripping us off” on trade. This fact is tacitly acknowledged […]
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 […]
A shocking event has occurred in the meandering psychodrama of America’s relationship with North Korea: the world’s great powers have unanimously voted to intensify sanctions […]
Washington is atwitter with talk of sanctions. Lawmakers left and right are riding high, as they “cry havoc!” and let slip the dogs of economic […]
Much has been written in recent months of the “existential” nature of the Russian threat. Yet, as I’ve documented here and at my website, the […]
Since Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 election, a constant drumbeat of Russophobia has resounded throughout the halls of power. Today, the drumbeat has become […]
Currently, the historian Thucydides is the object of debate among those within the Trump Administration and its critics, who, like scholars of the last three […]
Everyone who follows American affairs should understand that the country is now in what amounts to a second, but non-violent civil war. There are still […]
Like many, I was pleased by Donald Trump’s recent speech to the Polish people. Many commentators have lauded (or lamented) the fact that it was […]
Dr. Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to the president, joined American Greatness publisher Chris Buskirk on the radio Monday afternoon to discuss Donald Trump’s new “America […]
The Financial Times accuses President Trump of suffering from an odious, if tongue-in-cheek malady called trade deficit disorder (TDD). The symptoms? A bizarre and unjustified […]
In 1983, Ronald Reagan gave a monumental speech declaring his administration’s intention to build and place space-based missile defense systems in low Earth orbit. The […]
Before leaving for the G20 Summit in Germany, President Trump said the era of strategic patience is over. This comes after the return of the […]
The North Koreans put on their own pyrotechnic display over the July 4th weekend with a successful launch of an ICBM into the Sea of […]
For 67 years the United States and the world have paid the price of Harry Truman’s decision to renounce the possibility of victory in Korea. […]
A Chinese factory made international headlines two years ago by firing 90 percent of its workers, while simultaneously making 162.5 percent more stuff. How did […]
On May 11, 2011, the Obama Administration authorized the U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six to conduct a daring raid into the heart of Pakistan. Abbottabad, […]