The Descent of America

Posted by on Jun 7, 2020 in Articles, Featured, US Domestic Policy, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments Complaints about American decline have been commonplace since at least the Vietnam War era. In the late 1980s, declinism experienced an upsurge with the publication of The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, by Paul Kennedy, which warned of the dangers of imperial overstretch. Even America’s putative victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War represented only a minor lull in the chatter about the...
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Is It Time to Boycott the United States?

Posted by on Jun 7, 2020 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments In his infinite ignorance, Donald Trump has invited world leaders to the White House for a face-to-face meeting at the end of June. Unlike the other countries in the G7, the United States has yet to get the coronavirus pandemic under control. One of the hotspots that the White House itself has identified is none other than Washington, DC. And because of a poorly implemented re-opening of the...
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Trump’s ‘Uncreative Destruction’ of the U.S.-China Relationship

Posted by on Jun 6, 2020 in Articles, China, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments Economists like to think of the wreckage caused by stock market downturns, widespread bankruptcies, and corporate downsizing as “creative destruction.” As it destroys the old and the dysfunctional, the capitalist system continually spurs innovation, much as a forest fire prepares the ground for new growth. Or so the representatives of the dismal science argue. Donald Trump, who is neither...
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Debunking Trump’s China Nonsense

Posted by on Jun 6, 2020 in Articles, China, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments Conspiracy theorists never let a crisis go to waste. When something truly terrible happens, the conspiracy theorist sets to work to determine the dark, hidden forces at work behind the scenes that have produced the crisis. Some people might see God or the Devil as the prime mover behind a catastrophe. Others throw up their hands and mutter, “shit happens.” Not conspiracy theorists. They need...
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Trump Rex

Posted by on May 31, 2020 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments In retrospect, it’s no surprise that, after the election of Donald Trump in 2016, dystopian fiction enjoyed a spike in popularity. However, novels like George Orwell’s 1984 and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, which soared on Amazon, would prove more horror stories than roadmaps. Like so many ominous sounds from a dark basement, they provided good scares but didn’t foreshadow...
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The Next Pandemic

Posted by on May 31, 2020 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments Congress is already thinking about how to prevent the next pandemic. See how quickly Cory Booker (D-NJ) has teamed up with Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to write a letter calling for a global ban on “wet markets.” The current pandemic is reputed to have originated in a wet market in the Chinese city of Wuhan. So, having identified what they believe to be the root of the problem, these politicians...
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