The Savoyard diplomat Joseph de Maistre, writing to his Russian counterpart Prince Pyotr Borisovich Kozlovsky in the autumn of 1815, could not help but express his profound displeasure with the amoral nature of the czarist bureaucracy. “Some strange spirit of…
Incumbent Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s recent electoral victory ensures that Sweden will, for now, continue to remain outside of NATO. With the U.S. funding over 16 percent of the alliance’s budget, and an ongoing war in Ukraine that could…
So Bakhmut falls, and the war in Ukraine continues. The lesson is: Don’t hype a battle unless you know you can win. The struggle for Bakhmut started in earnest last August. At the time, it was just one engagement on…
“In New York we have a saying,” famously quipped the late Mayor Ed Koch, “a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged.” No one would count WNBA star Brittney Griner as a conservative, but you can count her as…
Russia’s ill-fated invasion of Ukraine has now become a political and economic calamity for the Kremlin. Having developed over decades a climate of servitude to the will of controlled oligarchs and autocrats, Russia has now lost any grip it may…
“Xi Jinping: The ‘Neutral’ Mediator,” editorial cartoon by Shaomin Li for The American Spectator, May 15, 2023.
We’ve addressed this theme in previous columns, but have you noticed how aggressive and in-your-face the lies coming out of Team Biden are? It’s impossible to miss. This installment of the 5QT will address that and related matters amid a…
Ronald Reagan used to joke, “Hard work never killed anybody, but I figure why take the chance?” No one will accuse President Joe Biden of working hard. His work schedule reportedly only requires his attention six hours a day and…
“I feel only sympathy for the Russians. No people have suffered as much death.” That was the response of a colleague of mine, Jan, a Polish professor and adviser to the Solidarity movement in the 1980s. I had hosted Jan…
