When Donald Trump first campaigned in 2015, he capitalized on a potent narrative: that China’s rise gutted American manufacturing, leaving countless blue-collar communities devastated. Known now as the “China shock,” that idea paved the way for a dramatic resurgence in…
The twenty-first century will be known as the Indo-Pacific century. It is already the scene of the most intense great power competition since the Cold War. China and the United States are battling for global preeminence, with the Indo-Pacific as…
America’s new policy of Realpolitik means rapprochement with Russia and refocusing on China. The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term have precipitated a veritable deluge of both criticism and critique — the former often portraying him as a…
Like so many others, I’ve long admired Elon Musk. His ambition, his ability to execute a deal, and his knack for hijacking industries that seemed immune to disruption are undeniable. He made electric cars reasonably cool, dragged NASA into the…
My colleague at The American Spectator Matthew Omolesky characterizes the “notion of a Reverse Nixon Maneuver,” proposed by Edward Luttwak and other foreign policy realists (including President Trump) as “utterly preposterous,” an “outlandish … geopolitical gambit,” a “pure fantasy, borne…
During the Cold War against the Soviet Union, especially during its final two decades, many liberals became “useful idiots” who believed Soviet leaders had abandoned communism and the goal of global hegemony. These were not the “political pilgrims” (Paul Hollander’s…
