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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The United States is fighting wars on multiple fronts. Aside from our involvement in Ukraine and the Middle East, a hot war is being waged against economics. This war is being championed by the progressives in the Democrat Party, backed…
There exists a vast taxonomy of political gaffes, including everything from verbal and Freudian slips to hot-mic fiascos and literal pratfalls, but few of these are of any lasting consequence. It might be mildly embarrassing for an American president to,…
