Churchill once said of John Foster Dulles that he was “the only case I know of a bull who carries his own China shop around with him.” Had Churchill miraculously lived another 60 odd years, I think he would agree that when it comes to this particular metaphor, Dulles…
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has quietly been abandoning the security framework of her predecessor, the populist Andrés Manuel López Obrador. López Obrador famously took a soft-touch approach towards cartels in Mexico, saying that ultimately what would solve organized crime are “hugs, not bullets,” a statement which became the motto…
If you wanted to destroy American culture, where might you start? If time scales were not your primary concern and you were patient, convincing Americans not to have babies would do the job quite nicely. At the same time, import a few million foreigners (actually 20+ million) and…
There is now a great MAGA siege of the fortified Deep State. Based on the horrified reactions coming from the news media cartel, it would seem that President Trump has taken the whole rotten Establishment by surprise. To be sure, the commander in chief did not hide his battle plans…
I’ve been writing about the Ultra-Processed Life that’s been normalized (or perhaps hyper-normalized), and the core dynamic at work is the disconnect between what I call the real world–tangible, contingent, requiring situational awareness and skills–and the disembodied nature of the digital, financial and consumption realms. Real-world relationships of face-to-face meetings in tangible places are…
The news cycle over the past week has been dominated by reports and analysis of the Signal group chat involving top national security officials discussing aspects of the recent air strikes which have been directed against the Houthis in Yemen. There are four basic issues that are being examined…
The skirmishes between the judiciary and the executive branch, particularly since Trump’s election, have escalated into a full-scale war with unelected partisan judges refusing to let President Trump govern. Although this looks like a war between the President and the Courts, it’s really about the Left vs. the Right.
Pro-Israel lobbies and organizations got what they paid for in 2024. Hundreds of millions of dollars of pro-Zionist donations to the Trump campaign and Trump-aligned PACs helped elect Trump, and every important appointment, and some less important ones are vocal Israel-firsters. Pre-existing massive military and other aid from the US…
For a totally different angle on the encrypted app story, I thought that instead of discussing how plans for bombing the Houthis was leaked, I’d discuss the bombing of the Houthis. Including any journalist in a top-secret discussion of war plans demonstrates shocking incompetence. But the fact that National Security Adviser…
The original interview, conducted by Gleb Ervye, was published here and has been translated and annotated by Constantin von Hoffmeister. A Conversation with Alexander Dugin Africa’s history of striving for independence and unity has been full of twists and setbacks. Yet today, we are witnessing a new phase in this…
