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by | Nov 21, 2023

Sixty years ago today, the president of the United States was murdered by Lee Harvey Oswald. No one experienced the tragedy like John F. Kennedy’s wife. The image of Jackie Kennedy almost instinctively, in a motherly way, scrambling to the…

by | Nov 20, 2023

Over the years I’ve had many hard things to say about the ambience of wealth and ambition at Princeton University, my alma mater, and about the school’s abandonment of its once coherent curriculum in favor of vague “area requirements.” One…

by | Nov 19, 2023

MAD or “mutually-assured destruction” is truly mad. The idea that a nuclear strike by one nation must result in worldwide Armageddon is insane. This theory of the Cold War, which cost untold billions in expenditures on weapons that have never…

by | Sep 24, 2023

Longtime political science professor and Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute John Mueller writes in Foreign Affairs that containment of the Soviet Union did not contribute to the end of the Cold War, and won’t work to defeat China in…

by | Sep 11, 2023

Obviously the group calling itself the communist “Revolution Club Chicago” thinks the American people are stupid. Here is the New York Post headline about the group’s recent appearance at a parking lot at a Jason Aldean concert: Communist revolutionaries set…

by | Aug 29, 2023

Married life and foreign relations aren’t entirely unrelated — both depend on good communication. That was the conclusion Russia and the United States came to in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis when the two powers came incredibly close…

by | Aug 27, 2023

Aug. 15, 2023 — Another day, another cosmic horror courtesy of the so-called “Russian world.” The setting this time is Velikiye Luki, the second-largest town in Pskov Oblast, where a solemn ceremony is being held on the sprawling grounds of…

by | Aug 10, 2023

In the 16 months since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, it has become clear that President Vladimir Putin’s aim to install a Russian-subservient government or to annex much of the country’s territory is unlikely to succeed at costs anywhere near…

by | Jul 17, 2023

Russia scholar Stephen Kotkin and China scholar Orville Schell, in a fascinating interview on Foreign Affairs, identify the collapse of the Soviet Union as the seminal event that motivates both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping in…

by | May 29, 2023

The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson Patrick Weil (Harvard University Press, 400 pages, $35) William Bullitt was one of the most interesting Americans of the 20th century. He turns…

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