Daniel Larison, reporting in The American Conservative, tears apart a recent op-ed by Bret Stephens, formerly The Wall Street Journal’s lead neoconservative, now working for The New York Times. Larison writes that dumping the JCPOA (better know to most as simply “the Iran deal”) would put America back on a collision course to war with […]
Is Western Civilization Really so Bad?
Robert W. Merry, writing in the 15th anniversary issue of The American Conservative, explains that much of the assault on Western civilization today is really a “political maneuver to favor the so-called victim class.” That victim class, especially on college campuses, has taken wholeheartedly to the idea that it has been oppressed, and that the […]
France’s Macron’s Wrong Track Before Congress
After Emmanuel Macron’s speech to a joint session of Congress, Patrick Buchanan writes in The American Conservative that the French president has gotten it all wrong. Macron’s calls for a renewed commitment to international organizations and globalism face a reality that has moved beyond those antiquated ideas. Buchanan writes (abridged): In an address before Congress on Wednesday, […]
Jon Basil Utley on Unnecessary Middle East Interventions
Writing at The American Conservative, my friend Jon Basil Utley, the magazine’s publisher, explains to readers the unreliable intelligence that has gotten America into overseas quagmires, and the unintended consequences those wars have wrought. He writes (abridged): Official Washington and those associated with it have misrepresented the facts numerous times in the service of military […]
Rand Paul Disappointing on Pompeo Confirmation Reversal
Where is the evidence that Mike Pompeo agrees with even Donald Trump’s rhetoric on Syria and Afghanistan? And has not Pompeo called for an open-ended troop presence in Afghanistan, as well as greater U.S. involvement in Syria and for that matter the Greater Middle East.? Yesterday I asked my friend Dr. Christopher Preble, VP for […]
Remembering the Traveling Wilburys – Inside Out
Chris Preble: Empower Mature, Like-Minded States
Chris Preble, my friend and Cato Institute’s vice president for defense and foreign policy studies, suggest America rely more on its “mature, like-minded,” allies to help solve local problems. This is undoubtedly preferable to the forever-war policy that has been employed over the last decade and a half. Chris writes in The New York Times (abridged): […]
Trump Could “Astonish the World”
At The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan writes that President Trump could astonish the world and even win the Nobel Peace Prize if he were to get North Korea to sign the same deal Iran did regarding nuclear weapons. By all reports, Trump seems eager for a deal with Kim Jong-Un. Why then would he consider […]
Can the Trump-Macron Axis Fix Trade?
Greg Ip, writing for The Wall Street Journal, examines the relationship of American President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron. The men have different styles, but they may be complimentary enough to work together to avoid any disastrous trade wars. Ip writes (abridged): French President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. President Donald Trump are ideological […]
Thomas Jefferson: Radical and Mischievous?
The American Conservative’s scholar-in-residence, Bradley Birzer, explains that Thomas Jefferson’s favorite works, by Isaac Newton, John Locke and Francis Bacon, were highly intelligent, when grouped together they were also somewhat “radical and mischievous.” This is descriptive duo is apt for the reading material of a man who would help lead his country into one of […]
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