The Current Crisis
The Current Crisis
by | Mar 15, 2025

The stock market panicked at the end of January on news that the Chinese start-up DeepSeek had made an artificial intelligence model that is more efficient than anything American companies have produced thus far. In response, former presidential candidate Vivek…

by | Mar 13, 2025

Hop in the time machine and hit the “Way Back” button for 1948. Upon arriving, you will find that a hot topic of the day was the founding of what would be called the State of Israel. And into the…

by | Mar 13, 2025

The stock market of late has been on a veritable roller coaster, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continues to ruffle feathers, Iran marches ever harrowingly closer to a nuclear weapon, and Russia and Ukraine get tantalizingly close to…

by | Mar 11, 2025

You can always rely on George Will to invoke the Munich analogy when urging the United States to become further embroiled in wars. The other day, the Washington Post’s favorite conservative columnist trotted out Munich to accuse President Trump, Vice…

by | Mar 5, 2025

WASHINGTON — This column is about how Washington and Kyiv got to that moment Friday when President Donald Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to leave the White House after a contentious meeting. The rift between Trump and Zelenskyy, according…

by | Mar 5, 2025

James Burnham and William F. Buckley Jr. must be turning over in their graves as their successors at National Review again join the Democratic and neoconservative war party. It was only about 20 years ago that National Review’s neocons cheered…

by | Mar 3, 2025

The date: October 11-12, 1986. As a young staffer in the Reagan White House Political Affairs Office, I, along with other colleagues, was frustrated. The 1986 congressional elections were in full swing, and it was our responsibility to arrange for…

by | Mar 3, 2025

And the award for best actor goes to … Volodymyr Zelenskyy. This weekend’s Academy Awards ceremony did not celebrate the performative talents of Zelenskyy. Sure, Dayrl Hannah said “Slava Ukraine” (“glory to Ukraine”) before presenting the Oscar for best film…

by | Mar 2, 2025

By now, everyone has seen the video and heard the commentary chewing over the debacle in the Oval Office, in which a sweatshirt-clad Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, fresh out of a meeting with a host of mostly-Democrat Senators whose counsel…

by | Feb 21, 2025

If you’re a consumer of the standard fare on cable news, you’ve assuredly seen historian and British conservative talking head Niall Ferguson, whose current titles include Milbank Family senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the…

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