The De-Trumpification of America

Posted by on Jul 26, 2020 in Articles, Featured, US Domestic Policy, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments Let’s assume that Donald Trump loses the election in November. Yes, that’s a mighty big assumption, despite all the polls currently favoring the Democrats. If the economy begins to recover and the first wave of Covid-19 subsides (without a second wave striking), Donald Trump’s reelection prospects could improve greatly. The Republican Party has a huge war chest ready to fund ads galore,...
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Why Bolton Matters

Posted by on Jul 26, 2020 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments Unreliable narrators are a staple of literature. Consider the delusional, self-serving narrator of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl or the way Humbert Humbert used his cultured references and gorgeous prose to dress up his crimes in Nabokov’s Lolita. Now along comes John Bolton and his account of time served in the Trump administration as national security advisor. Bolton’s latest book has been...
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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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