Profound? Confusing? Nonsense? Melzer’s Guide to Esoteric Reading offers potential answers for strategists, students and researchers wishing to establish a link, by example, between Leo Strauss, Bill Kristol and the Bush Administration. Melzer: “Dissembling the true target (esoterically speaking of Y when the real target is some other thing Z); developing a compelling argument and […]
Archives for March 2019
A Cyber-attack Didn’t Take Down Venezuela’s Power Grid, Socialism Did
Rolling blackouts have plagued Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, since February, and longer blackouts have been the norm more recently. The government and even Russia have blamed the blackouts on a cyber-attack by the United States, but the Wall Street Journal’s Ryan Dube reports that the problem has more to do with the brain drain happening at […]
President Trump, What do We do About Amazon?
Emily Manna is a policy analyst at Open the Government, a non-partisan coalition that advances policies that create a more transparent, accountable, and responsive government. At The American Conservative, Manna digs in to Amazon’s growing relationship with the Department of Defense. Led by CEO Jeff Bezos, Amazon is increasingly providing cloud and artificial intelligence services to the […]
Worldview: Robert Kagan, Often Wrong but Never in Doubt
Robert Kagan warns us about global authoritarianism: “Of all the geopolitical transformations confronting the liberal democratic world these days, the one for which we are least prepared is the ideological and strategic resurgence of authoritarianism.“ Larison’s take: We are not used to thinking of authoritarianism as a distinct worldview because it isn’t one. There is no one […]
France Protests Flame Up Again
Weekly protests in Paris turned violent on Saturday as protesters smashed windows on the Champs-Élysées. The protests, which have gone on for 18 straight weeks, had been calmer recently, but grew in size and violence this past weekend. Noemie Bisserbe reports for The Wall Street Journal: French officials vowed to step up a crackdown on […]
Can these Democrats Fail Upward?
Robert “Beto” O’Rourke, a congressman from Texas who failed in his bid to become the state’s next U.S. Senator in 2018, is now running for the Democratic nomination for president. Stacey Abrams, a former minority leader in the Georgia State House of Representatives, failed to win her bid for that state’s governorship. Now she too […]
“I Wish I Could Vote for President Trump Twice”
These are the words of George Bardmesser, a DC area attorney who says of the 2020 election “I have never been more motivated in my life, because the Democrats are terrifying me.” Bardmesser can’t wait to vote for President Trump against the Democrats. He writes in The Federalist (abridged): It’s a damn shame I have […]
Why is Federal Government Involved in Higher Education?
Avoid Elite Colleges and Head for the Books
In writing about the college admission scandal, Peggy Noonan gives readers an antidote. Kids at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville are local, she writes. The student body is a racial and ethnic mix, immigrants and children of immigrants. Ms. Noonan found them to be “gracious, welcoming, quick with smart questions on presidents and policy.” At […]
The 16 States With Constitutional Carry
I recently wrote to you that Governor Matt Bevin of Kentucky signed a bill giving Kentuckians the right to concealed carry without a permit. The NRA said that Kentucky was the 16th state to recognize constitutional carry. Here’s the list as it stands today: Alaska Arizona Arkansas Idaho Kansas Kentucky Maine Mississippi Missouri New Hampshire […]
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