Trump’s America needs the conservative tradition
Conservatism is more akin to an ethos or a disposition than to a fixed ideology
Still, the Global War on Terrorism goes on
The national security establishment turns its attentions to China, having completely failed to learn from past failures
Will American exceptionalism survive the pandemic?
By and large, the world’s most powerful and most expensive military establishment is not proving terribly relevant
How to end endless wars
If politicians really wanted to ‘support the troops’, they’d introduce mandatory national service
Does Trump have a better idea than endless wars?
Few in Washington acknowledge the scope of the self-inflicted wounds the US has sustained since 9/11
The diplomacy of deference
Trump’s actions are constrained by what Saudi and Israeli leaders are willing to tolerate
Trump lays bare America’s smelly little orthodoxies
Through his preposterousness, the President exposes the smugness, cant, and corruption of our politics
The troika of absurdity
Only one possible explanation exists for the breathtaking cynicism implicit in Bolton’s speech: domestic politics
Seeing red: where did all the deficit-cutting Republicans go?
None of the usual arguments made to justify deficit spending apply
In the age of Trump’s ‘fire and fury’, how can you tell what American foreign policy is?
By now, most policymakers have learned to not take the president seriously.
Will the next American officer to preside over Afghanistan bring an end to the war? Don’t count on it
General Miller’s vision, to the extent that he has one, reduces to a single word: Persist.
America goes rogue
How the abandonment of the Iran nuclear deal could mark the start of a Saudi-American-Israeli axis.
The McMaster disaster
In recent days and weeks, nominally respectable media outlets in the United States have repeatedly announced that Lieutenant General H.R.…
