Despite heavy government (that is, taxpayer) subsidies, sales of automobiles driven by batteries rather than gasoline haven’t taken off nearly so quickly as their advocates had hoped. Ostensibly, the benefit of driving electric cars is that they don’t emit CO2,…
My ancestors were murdered in the Holocaust. My family suffered under the iron grip of the Soviet Union, stripped of their rights, silenced, and treated as second-class citizens because of their identity. They came to America with nothing — no…
It’s unclear whether President Trump wants to be a wartime president or a peacemaker. Trump is about halfway through his first hundred days in his new term as president. So far, he has threatened Hamas with military action, threatened action…
There was a disaster at the White House on Friday. The public spat that resulted in Donald Trump accusing the Ukrainian president of being “disrespectful” and “unwilling to pursue a negotiated peace” has further deepened the negative perceptions of the…
Not to get faux-erudite; Tocqueville was required reading when I was in school, and a blessed requirement that was. I returned to the famous concluding peroration after reading about the negotiations the president views as the necessary end to the…
By now, everyone has seen the video and heard the commentary chewing over the debacle in the Oval Office, in which a sweatshirt-clad Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, fresh out of a meeting with a host of mostly-Democrat Senators whose counsel…
After the White House shouting contest on Friday, U.S. support for Ukraine may be at an end. No one can be happy about that except Vladimir Putin. A little background before we get to the shouting. Before he became vice…
In 2006, the brilliant geopolitical scholar Mark Steyn wrote a depressively prescient book about the imminent fate of the Western world, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It. Steyn posited that Europe would collapse from three…
Robert D. Kaplan is one of our country’s most important geopolitical thinkers. His always incisive writings blend knowledge of geography, history, and usually healthy doses of Bismarckian realism. But in a new article in Foreign Policy, Kaplan strays from realism…
