I was reporting for VOA from Europe when the Covid pandemic hit in 2020. Immediately concluding that it was a lab created virus produced by Chinese bioweapon research, I filed the following piece. Subsequently, I got an email from the…
University of Arizona professor John Willerton has taken to the pages of the online journal 19Fortyfive to rhapsodize about his hero Mikhail Gorbachev, whom Willerton claims transformed his country and the world. Gorbachev, he writes, was a “dynamic politician who…
A quiet yet seismic shift is occurring in America’s prison cells. Fewer inmates are reading the Bible behind bars, while more are reading the Quran. That’s right. Islam is quickly becoming the dominant faith in America’s prison system. According to…
My colleague at The American Spectator Matthew Omolesky characterizes the “notion of a Reverse Nixon Maneuver,” proposed by Edward Luttwak and other foreign policy realists (including President Trump) as “utterly preposterous,” an “outlandish … geopolitical gambit,” a “pure fantasy, borne…
In an age where the Second Amendment is caricatured as a relic of frontier nostalgia or a totem of reckless individualism, conservatives must reclaim its deeper truth: the right to bear arms is not merely a constitutional guarantee but a…
Despite heavy government (that is, taxpayer) subsidies, sales of automobiles driven by batteries rather than gasoline haven’t taken off nearly so quickly as their advocates had hoped. Ostensibly, the benefit of driving electric cars is that they don’t emit CO2,…
In the early 1970s, China was supplying significant military, financial, and logistical assistance to North Vietnam in its war against the United States. China was helping North Vietnamese troops kill American soldiers. Domestically, China was still in the throes of…
What is it about Washington liberals and Democratic leaders that made them so anxious for a deal with Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko, and Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1970s and 1980s, but not with Vladimir Putin in the second…
Robert D. Kaplan is one of our country’s most important geopolitical thinkers. His always incisive writings blend knowledge of geography, history, and usually healthy doses of Bismarckian realism. But in a new article in Foreign Policy, Kaplan strays from realism…
