Begin with impromptu remarks over Ukraine that our president made at a Democratic Party fundraiser: Think about it. We have not faced the promise of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis. We’ve got a guy I know fairly…
Just as there are fundamental laws of nature, among which can be counted the laws of conservation of energy, mass, and linear momentum, so too are there fundamental laws of human nature, which may be said to include the law…
The world will long remember the consequences of one man’s gross miscalculation and unparalleled blunder in ordering the invasion of a neighboring sovereign country. Not only did Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war impact Ukraine, but the world and his people…
У мене вдома непрошені гості — Я їм замість хліба дам каміння і кості, В горнятка налию болота з калюжі, Хай знають шо ми з ними зовсім не друзі. — Мія Рамарі, “Гості” (2022) I have uninvited guests in my…
In a perceptive essay published in the Winter 1995 issue of Dissent, just war theorist Michael Walzer questioned the morality of nonintervention-as-absolute policy on the part of nations having the wherewithal to prevent gross evil.[1] To intervene or not intervene,…
“Two visions of the world remain locked in dispute,” said President Ronald Reagan in July 1983. “The first believes all men are created equal by a loving God who has blessed us with freedom. Abraham Lincoln spoke for us…. The…
The invasion of Ukraine, as with many other wars in modern Russian history, has followed a familiar pattern. First, the much-lauded Russian Armed Forces stumbles into a damaging and humiliating debacle characterized by operational inflexibility and failures of coordination. Then,…
With friends like President Joe Biden, you don’t need many enemies. Biden made his bid to become the most militarily incompetent American president in history during the Afghan fiasco last August. He may lock in that distinction with his lukewarm…
Russia’s invasion of a sovereign Ukraine is a stark echo of the Cold War: A formerly Soviet-dominated country tries to make its own way in the world, its putative success highlighting for Russians a different path forward to peace and…
