Each morning for the last several days I’ve turned first for news concerning the two SEALs lost at sea off the coast of Somalia, hoping—by this moment, hoping against all hope—that they will somehow be found alive. I’ve been privileged…
The Israel-Hamas war has placed a spotlight on the absurdity enveloping the parts of the Arab world subjected to Iranian interference: Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq. Despite being afflicted by deepening financial and humanitarian crises and not having been attacked…
Beijing has spent the last several decades pressuring and threatening Taiwan, the island roughly 100 miles off the coast of mainland China, so no one was surprised when, during his New Year’s address, Chinese President Xi Jinping asserted that Taiwan’s…
The Yemeni-based Houthi rebel attacks on global commerce and trade finally produced a response from the Biden administration (and the United Kingdom) in the form of targeted air strikes on Houthi military facilities, such as “command and control nodes, munitions,…
The oldest mystery about the Left is how it continues to be a formidable force when everything it has ever tried has been a catastrophe, often a homicidal one. For 250 years, its Godless contra-nature philosophy has led to historic…
One of the things that Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, has publicly emphasized is the cruelty that he experienced during his childhood. In his early years while being indoctrinated to hate Israel and Jews generally…
Writing in the Diplomat, R. Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College professor of Latin America research, warns about “China’s Growing Strategic Position in Nicaragua.” The Nicaraguan regime headed by Daniel Ortega is expanding trade with China and inviting more Chinese…
What do foreign policy realists hope for? Not global democracy. Not the emergence of greater global governance. Not a unipolar world led by the United States or China. Not an end to all international conflict. Realists understand that some of…
We’ve wished each other a “Merry Christmas,” we’ve gathered with family to exchange gifts, we’ve enjoyed the fellowship of our Christmas church services, and maybe we’ve even enjoyed a White Christmas, with chestnuts roasting on an open fire and jack…
