When Donald Trump returned to the presidency in January 2025, one of the first things he did was to prominently display the bust of Winston Churchill in the Oval Office once again. Four years before, President Biden had replaced Churchill’s…
Justin Trudeau, an open admirer of China’s “basic dictatorship,” has now given way to Mark Carney. The new prime minister’s mentor will be of interest on both sides of the border. (RELATED: Mark Carney Is Incredibly Dangerous) Mark Carney earned a…
U krańca Lublina czworokąt czarny szumem poemat wiatrów skanduje. Klony, brzeziny, kasztany, tuje obsiadły wyspę umarłych. [At the edge of Lublin, a black quadrangle Chants a poem of the wind, with a murmur. Maples, berry, chestnuts, thuja They settled the…
Fifty years ago this week, on April 30, 1975, Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, fell to communist North Vietnamese forces, and the world watched as helicopters rescued the last remaining Americans from our embassy. America’s longest war — up…
A simple warning to President Trump: Human nature hasn’t changed. Presidents are not exempt from the problem of hubris. When married to the awesome power of the presidency, there’s the human tendency to throw caution to the wind, to embrace…
In 1801 President Thomas Jefferson responded to a group of Connecticut merchants who objected to his appointment of a new collector of customs duties — the equivalent of tariffs. The prior holder of that office — Elizur Goodrich — had…
Harvard University Professor Graham Allison, he of “Thucydides Trap” fame, writes in the National Interest that President Trump may be able to end the Ukraine War on acceptable, if imperfect, terms if he emulates President Dwight Eisenhower’s strategy that ended the…
Not to get faux-erudite; Tocqueville was required reading when I was in school, and a blessed requirement that was. I returned to the famous concluding peroration after reading about the negotiations the president views as the necessary end to the…
Elon Musk and DOGE — the Department of Government Efficiency — are all the rage. As this is written, here are a few sample headlines: The Washington Times: “Trump order calls for agencies to run regulations past DOGE.” Newsmax: “IRS…
