NATO Now Serves the Interests of the Transatlantic Ruling Class
If we’re to believe the recent NATO summit’s communique and the mainstream media’s commentaries about it, the alliance serves roughly the same essential purpose today […]
Defense of the West
Refighting the Indian Wars
Did you hear about how Facebook censored a passage from the Declaration of Independence as “hate speech”? The Vindicator, a small daily newspaper in Liberty, […]
Putin Needs a Deal With Trump
The Russian Federation controls one of the largest nuclear arsenals in the world. In fact, Russia’s nonstrategic nuclear weapons arsenal is likely larger and more […]
Iftar and City Hall: Separation of Mosque and State?
As Muslims observed the month of Ramadan this year, more city halls were full partners in hosting and promoting religious Iftar dinners. This year Philadelphia […]
Trump’s ‘Deplorable’ Diplomacy
Liberals see Donald Trump as the embodiment of toxic masculinity. Trump’s voters see a real man. My husband jokes that in our family, if anything […]
Neocons Empower America’s Enemies
Whenever neoconservatives speak about the bounties that endless wars of “liberation” will provide, I am reminded of a Jonah Goldberg column from 2002, expounding upon […]
The Establishment Hearts China
Communist China is one of the gravest threats this country has ever faced, in large part because many members of the American establishment see China […]
Hillary and Brexit
Scientists are so smart these days they can tell how someone voted in the 2016 Brexit referendum by asking how they like their steak prepared. […]
Obama and Bush Were the Autocrats, Not Trump
The supposed autocrat, President Donald J. Trump, relentlessly has followed the law in seeking to gain approval for his executive order placing a temporary travel […]
Liberalism and the Abnormal Trump
The enduring triumph of liberalism was not the civil rights movement, women’s liberation, open borders, or even Obergefell v. Hodges. Something more fundamental happened long […]
Ms. Merkel’s Malady: Migration
Germans like to apologize. During a brief trip to Munich last year, tensions between locals and newly arrived migrants often flared into fizzing commotions of […]
The Trans-Atlantic Class Struggle
At the recent G7 summit, President Trump differed with the leaders of Britain, Germany, France and Canada on a host of issues. But the real […]
What’s Really Happening With North Korea?
Most commentary on the Trump/Kim summit is evidence of partisan stampede thinking. Herewith are the insights of an old professor of international affairs, who does […]
Hearing Evil Out
William F. Buckley once famously quipped of Robert F. Kennedy’s continued refusal to come on Firing Line, “Why does bologna reject the grinder?” Today, the […]
Behold, the New World Order
Last summer, I had just arrived in Germany and was settling in at my family’s home when news of a yet another Muslim attack flashed […]
How Twitter Diplomacy Works
President Trump this week will bust 68 years of diplomatic white paper inertia and meet the leader of a nation with which America has been […]
Thank God Trump Isn’t a Foreign Policy Expert
Over the last century, the world has witnessed the slow but steady depoliticization of America and Western Europe in favor of the rule of the […]
Europe’s Vanishing Calm
AVIGNON, France—The Rhone River Valley in southern France is a storybook marriage of high technology, traditional vineyards, and ancestral villages. High-speed trains and well-designed toll […]
Peace in Our Time? The Trump-Putin Summit
The Wall Street Journal reports that the White House is working toward a summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Trump. In the […]
The Italian Establishment’s Coming Crash
After a political saga an Italian newspaper compared to a “Monty Python” sketch, Italian populists have cobbled together a government the Financial Times likens to […]