by | Aug 26, 2024

A couple of years ago I wrote here about a couple whom I described as Norway’s answer to Britain’s Harry and Meghan, although it now occurs to me that the royal half of the couple in question might also be…

by | Aug 25, 2024

Militant Islam and Feeble Europe The trauma of the two world wars on European soil left the continent of Enlightenment foundering for direction and balance. Decolonization in Africa, withdrawal from the Middle East, and the rise of Asian powers, contributed…

by | Aug 16, 2024

International incidents rarely play out like Hollywood action films — and when they do, the public usually doesn’t get to hear about it. But every once in a while, some journalist goes out and digs up the kind of story…

by | Aug 14, 2024

On the one hand is Thierry Breton: Frenchman and professional fool. On top of that, he is European commissioner for the internal market. On the other hand is Elon Musk: a madman with a lot of talent and a great…

by | Jul 16, 2024

Elbridge Colby served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and force development in the Trump administration and is credited with shifting U.S. defense strategy from its focus on the global War on Terror and “small wars” to great…

by | Jul 13, 2024

In these incredibly harrowing times, I try to relax by watching movies late at night. Unfortunately, too many are horror films of one kind or another: Serial killers who torture their victims and stage their murders, or visions of our…

by | Jul 13, 2024

WASHINGTON — Most of the questions asked by political animals during President Joe Biden’s press conference at NATO Thursday night were variations of the same thought: What are you still doing here after you fumbled and stumbled through the June…

by | Jul 9, 2024

The Right’s problem is never the Left. It’s always some idiot who labels himself a centrist. This means he’s not brave enough to say he’s right-wing, nor brave enough to admit he’s left-wing. God said that he would vomit the…

by | Jun 29, 2024

French voters begin the two-round process of electing a new National Assembly (their House) on Sunday, and the fear — or is it a frisson? — is that Nazis will take most of the 577 seats in the venerable old…

by | Jun 22, 2024

I have never eaten a goose. Alive. Dead maybe, because Europe is now full of restaurants where you know exactly what you’re paying for, but you have no idea what you’re eating. Last night, I found myself walking into a…

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