As far as I can tell from the news, though obviously it’s much too early to know how it will play out, the Trump foreign policy is resolutely Reaganesque in the sense that he is going for sovereignty, secure borders,…
There was a moment of civility following the election, with both the president and the vice president calling the president-elect to congratulate him on his winning campaign and assure him of their full cooperation in the transition. He reportedly accepted…
In an article in Unherd, the strategic analyst Edward Luttwak calls on the Biden administration to “unleash Israel” by giving the Netanyahu government the green light to attack Iran’s nuclear installations and/or the Khark Island oil terminal. Luttwak, however, has…
Alger Hiss was a prominent New Dealer who accompanied Franklin Roosevelt to Yalta and was later revealed to be a Soviet agent. He advised FDR to trust Stalin’s assurances that he would be a trustworthy partner for peace following World…
The core policies that make up the much-derided America First program have their political roots in the presidential campaigns of Ross Perot in 1992, Patrick Buchanan in 1992, 1996, and 2000, and the Tea Party movement in the early 21st…
When Matt Walsh traveled to Africa to ask members of the Maasai people about transgenderism, the Maasai villagers laughed at him. The short clip in Walsh’s 2022 documentary What Is a Woman? stands in stark contrast with the other interviews…
Strong client states help keep America first, and that includes Ukraine. Rome was at her strongest and her military most efficient when she maintained a vibrant system of clients along the marches of the empire from the days of the…
The Center for the National Interest bills itself as “America’s Voice for Strategic Realism.” Its principal voice on the national and international stage is the journal, the National Interest. The current editor of the National Interest is Jacob Heilbrunn, who has…
A long time ago in Baltimore, I sat outside an Immigration office with my pal, Tom Welsh, ready to answer questions about my worthiness for American citizenship. Because of my mother’s international bank job, I’d spent 20 years since arriving…
