Are Neocons Really Back In The Trump Administration?
There may be neoconservatives cheering that drone strike, as neoconservatives are wont to do, but it is unlikely that they are the ones driving policy.
Freakout Over Nationalism Book Illustrates The End Of Traditional Left-Right Politics
The editor of National Review wrote a book praising a benevolent, liberal, unifying form of nationalism. The vitriolic reaction was eye-opening.
10 Questions To Ask About Trump’s Removal Of Troops From Syria
Trump’s critics appear to believe that backing a Marxist splinter group aligned with the anti-American, pro-Iranian axis in its war against a NATO ally is sound policy.
If You’re Not Grateful To The United States, Why Are You Here?
New York University professor Suketu Mehta recently published a book arguing that ‘immigration is a form of reparations’ for past American crimes.
Not The National Conservatism We’ve Been Looking For
Promoting the same failed policies, and rehabilitating the same failed ‘experts,’ simply because they have rebranded as ‘national conservatives,’ will not advance the American cause.
Peter Thiel Calls For Google To Be Investigated For Treason
The year 2016 was a defining moment in the Western polity, with Brexit and Donald Trump’s election changing the status quo, which led to this conference trying to figure out what exactly is causing such changes.
President Trump’s Concern For Foreign Casualties From An Iran Strike Demonstrated Strength And Empathy
When was the last time you heard a U.S. president express hesitancy and moral qualms about the loss of innocent lives through our military interventions? Probably never.
Justice Democrats Are The New Neocons, And Should Be Opposed The Same Way
Neocons had little popular constituency but great institutional power. Justice Democrats have little popular constituency but great cultural power. They will fall the same way.
President Trump Can Still Avert A Catastrophe With Iran, And He Should
It appears President Trump is cognizant of the slow drift to war with Iran, and is not very happy about it. Someone needs to remind him who is the president.
Neocons Don’t Deserve All The Blame For The Iraq War
It was the combination of 9/11 and the ongoing conflict between the United States and Iraq that culminated in the invasion of the latter in 2003.
Dick Cheney Has No Credibility To Challenge Mike Pence On Foreign Policy
Neocons have lost the GOP base due to their mishandling of the United States’ foreign wars, and Trump’s presidency is only just the beginning of a necessary shift.
Democrats’ Extremist Crackup Makes Trump’s Governance Hugely Attractive To Swing Voters
The modern left was predicated on a tacit understanding between the liberal internationalists on one hand, and social democrats and closet Marxists on the other. That peace is shattered, for good.
Max Boot, Bye-Bye
Max Boot has announced he is no longer a conservative.
Why 400 Troops In Syria Is Too Many To Leave Behind
Were U.S. forces not already deployed to Syria, no sane person would recommend sending in 400 U.S. troops into a complex, dangerous civil war with multiple armed actors on the ground.
No Amount Of U.S. Intervention Is Going To Save Afghanistan Now Or Ever
These failed pundits’ efforts are meant to shame President Trump into reversing his instinct to pull the United States out of Afghanistan.
No, Forever War In Syria Won’t Protect The United States
If the U.S. experience in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria should have told our foreign policy elites anything, it is that Washington can’t resolve distant political problems.
The Syria Controversy Is A Proxy War Over America’s Foreign Policy
James Mattis’s departure highlights the broader legitimation crisis that results from American foreign policy being run without democratic accountability and against popular opinion.
4 Foreign Policy Establishment Myths About Leaving Syria, Debunked
Trump’s decision nips further mission creep in the bud and refocuses the national security bureaucracy on the right priorities.
I Used To Be A Conservative, But Not Anymore
Sometimes you reach a point—usually when you have something to promote—when what you once thought no longer is what you think now.
The DC Establishment Gets Almost Everything Wrong About Trump’s Saudi Posture
Yesterday, President Trump resisted public pressure and declined to significantly reorient American foreign policy in light of Saudi Arabia’s brutal killing of its political opponent Jamal Khashoggi.