Herod the Great’s alignment with the Roman empire led to both the high-point of Jewish power and the destruction of the Jewish state.
The two theories of American government—one fantasy, one reality
Who benefited from the obvious nonsense that became post-Cold War America’s trade, foreign, and federal deficit policies?
Ukraine shows that the ‘return of great power rivalry’ isn’t happening under the Biden administration
Why Donald Trump should defy the elites and get the U.S. forces out of Afghanistan
China prospered while buying off greedy American elites. Now that alarm bells are ringing in Washington, who will answer the call?
How an American elite subscribed to the unproven theory that business with the Chinese Communist Party is good for America
Think tanks, universities, museums, newspapers, and key congressional committees are all pieces in a game of 3D chess that the tiny Gulf state is playing with its rivals, using Washington, D.C., as its game board
How Obama’s ‘progressive’ foreign policy vision—to backpedal away from the Middle East, fast, while kicking our former allies in the region to the curb—became consensus in D.C.
The historian of American statecraft and spycraft and conservative political philosopher Angelo Codevilla talks about the ruling elite, Jonathan Pollard, and the rise of the techno-surveillance state—and the consequent demise of the American Empire
How the fight for the next communications ecosystem could make a world dependent on Chinese technology, Chinese software, Chinese e-commerce, Chinese venture capital, and the Chinese market
Why the left is repeating Christianity’s most dangerous historical mistakes, and why it’s very, very bad for the Jews
From the Pilgrim founders to Donald Trump, ‘a belief in the exceptional role of an American nation’
News of the News: How operatives used the Khashoggi murder and the American press for political ends
And why Trump’s military pullout represents not a new direction in foreign affairs but a coarse coda to a decade of institutional error
The mullahs have all the time in the world. Donald Trump does not.
What lies beneath seven years of Israeli rhetoric about Iran?
How President Donald Trump has been forthright about the actual drivers of American policy in the Middle East
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