Looks like the Counsel On Foreign Relations won't be endorsing Trump this year. At Foreign Affairs Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is visiting the United Kingdom and Denmark this week amid a strain in the transatlantic alliance. President Donald Trump has criticized...
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Stephen M Walt: Countries Should Mind Their Own Business
"As A.J.P. Taylor once archly observed, leaders in the 19th century “fought ‘necessary’ wars and killed thousands; the idealists of the 20th century fought ‘just’ wars and killed millions.” Stephen M. Walt (professor of international relations at Harvard University)...
A Halo for the Civil War is Hogwash
“If the people who started wars didn’t make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?” said Rhett Butler, the savvy anti-hero in Gone with the Wind. Politicians, activist historians, and social justice warriors have awarded the American Civil War an ex post...
News Roundup 7/15/20
US News An Arkansas judge has been exposed for trading sex for favorability in his courtroom. Judge Tim Parker traded money and drugs to women for sex. He also acted as a lawyer and accepted sex for his services. [Link] The Trump Administration rescinds an order that...
Outliving Thoreau’s Life of Poverty
Henry David Thoreau has inspired generation of Americans to live fuller, freer lives. From his story of spending a night in jail as a tax protestor in “Civil Disobedience” to his chronicle of solitary living in Walden, Thoreau reached higher ground by going against...
Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty
[Originally appeared in Left and Right, Spring 1965, pp. 4-22.] The Conservative has long been marked, whether he knows it or not, by long-run pessimism: by the belief that the long-run trend, and therefore Time itself, is against him, and hence the inevitable trend...
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
In Congress, July 4, 1776. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of...
Woodrow Wilson: A President Worth ‘Canceling’
Princeton University has made it official: Woodrow Wilson’s name no longer will have any place on campus. The former president, or at least his memory, now is part of cancel culture, which is sweeping the nation. The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International...
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