Just about everyone these days believes that the political Right is in disarray. It does not know what it is for or against. It is both rejecting every old principle and clinging to any solution that might give it power…
The statesmen of Singapore in the tradition of Lee Kuan Yew are known for their foreign-policy realism, and they know Asia much better than do Westerners. We should assess their geopolitical advice with that perspective in mind. Bilahari Kausikan, a…
The Heritage Foundation just published a report titled “Winning the New Cold War: A Plan for Countering China.” Are China and the U.S. in a New Cold War, as this report contends? Chinese leader Xi Jinping does not want us…
The most powerful “weapon” of the Cold War wasn’t a weapon but an initiative dismissed by skeptics as “Star Wars,” that is, the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). And it was 40 years ago this month, on March 23, 1983, that…
The Xi–Putin summit in Moscow has ended with the signing of joint statements lauding the “deepening … comprehensive strategic partnership” between China and Russia and their bilateral cooperation in the economic, agricultural, scientific, and technological realms. Russia stated its support…
On June 30, 1976, I moved from New York City to Los Angeles to do various tasks in Hollywood. I had in 1973–74 been a speechwriter for President Richard Nixon and had become friends with him in a small way…
Most people hate to speak ill of the dead. They look for something nice to say about even the not-so-dear departed. People’s natural imperfections usually seem to shrink when they leave this earth. Not so with Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, as…
March 8 marks the 40th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan’s “Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida,” better known as the “Evil Empire” speech. This tour de force must be remembered and understood…
The dark shattered wicked winter silence waits at the door like death. What will remain of this winter will be the words and how you said them. – Serhiy Zhadan, “The Dark Shattered Wicked Winter” (2015) The Budynok Slovo, or…
