In an important article in the American Conservative, researcher John Mac Ghlionn provides further evidence that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is aiming at no less than geopolitical primacy on what Sir Halford Mackinder called the Eurasian-African “World-Island.” Mac Ghlionn’s…
Almost everything is broken in Italy, except the pizzas, which they serve you whole so that you can break them. I find it hard to write about the country responsible for both the boot and Tuscany, because my Mediterranean soul…
Three times in the past year, President Joe Biden has said we would defend Taiwan with military force, which would be a major shift in U.S. defense policy. Every time he has said that, his Cabinet and White House advisers…
China has poisoned the world with COVID-19, and now increasingly threatens to invade our ally Taiwan. To learn more about the full specter of the CCP’s malevolence, the following is a recommended book list of all things China. Asia’s Cauldron:…
In November, Secretary of State Antony Blinken removed Nigeria from the State Department’s list of countries hostile to religious freedom. The move flabbergasted religious freedom advocates, including members of the U.S. government’s own Commission on International Religious Freedom. That commission…
The World Health Organization announced Wednesday that it has approved the first malaria vaccine. The disease, which is spread by mosquitoes and mostly affects people in sub-Saharan Africa, is one of the world’s deadliest. According to the Institute for Health…
White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea by Tyler Stovall (Princeton University Press, 436 pages, $29.95) When a historian makes much of the phrase “free, white and twenty-one” and tortures for three pages the question of whether Emily Brontë’s…
Salafi-Jihadi extremist groups in Africa seek to establish Islamic polities across the globe and pose a very real threat to Western nations, American Enterprise Institute fellow Katherine Zimmerman claimed during a Tuesday event hosted by AEI’s Critical Threats Project and…
Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) approved China’s Sinovac vaccine for COVID-19, following its approval of China’s Sinopharm last month. The WHO can now distribute both vaccines through the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) program, which distributes COVID-19 vaccine…
