Joseph Nye, the emeritus professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School and former foreign policy adviser to Presidents Carter, Clinton, and Obama, who has advocated continued engagement with China even as the Chinese Communist regime looks to seize control of Taiwan and…
If you are a novelist, you may abandon inconvenient reality for richly imagined fiction. Consider Evelyn Waugh, who converted to Roman Catholicism in 1930. Rather than embrace the low-born majority of his new fellow congregants, he wove the richly tragic…
What do you think of when you hear the words “Nordic welfare state”? Government-run health care, with reasonable fees for regular check-ups but long waiting lists for certain life-saving treatments? Free university education, the proviso being that there may not…
The year was 1998. Bill Clinton, who had been dogged by accusations of sexual misconduct ever since his first run for the presidency in 1992, was now mired in the most appalling sex scandal in White House history. After the…
Academic- and government-sponsored misinformation based on “the science” may have become a focal point during the COVID pandemic, but it is nothing new. Like Ptolemy needing extremely complex models to explain the observed movements of the sun and the planets…
Karl Marx once famously commented that Hegel wrote that history repeats itself. Marx then supplemented this by noting that this happens the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. And it is perhaps ironic that this is nowhere more…
When tears flow, they wipe them with a handkerchief, When blood flows, they hurry with their sponges, But when the spirit seeps out under oppression, They don’t come running with an open hand, ’Til God, with a flash of lightning,…
Consider him a great playwright and screenwriter, if you wish — call him, for that matter, as some have done, the greatest living American dramatist — and, while I couldn’t disagree more, I won’t argue with you, either. But I…
Last week in the Atlantic, David Graham took aim at smart conservative politicians who play dumb. He declares at the beginning of his piece, “This is the age of smart politicians pretending to be stupid.” As evidence, he mainly cites…