The battle between heartland and ‘rimland’
Hal Brands and Michael Beckley write in Foreign Affairs about important geopolitical shifts. At first glance, today’s strategic map seems familiar. A bloc of land-based powers, clustered around the center…
eastern region of Asia
Hal Brands and Michael Beckley write in Foreign Affairs about important geopolitical shifts. At first glance, today’s strategic map seems familiar. A bloc of land-based powers, clustered around the center…
Nicholas Eberstadt and Patrick Norrick explore a challenge for the future of human flourishing. Human beings are unique among living creatures in being able to alter their own fertility deliberately,…
Chuck Devore writes for the Federalist about an emerging threat from communist China. On April 24, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) issued a report on China’s naval modernization, noting that,…
Shouldn't Cooper be sobered by this study's warnings about economic damage from lockdowns? Instead, the governor flat-out warned of returning to lockdowns in announcing the very order that cited this research.
Click for Part 1 and Part 2 of this series. To recap: The Cooper administration sent a list of 22 studies, all published this year, containing what they state is…
Julio Rivera writes at the American Thinker about the impact in this year’s elections of American policy toward China. The last few months or so have been perhaps the worst…
But I think he’s definitely right about the politicization of medicine. Harvey Risch, who’s a Professor of Epidemiology at Yale’s School of Public Health, published an opinion piece yesterday called,…
John McCormack of National Review Online asks why Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton was one of the earliest high-profile American politicians to warn about potential harm from the coronavirus. While others…
Eddie Scarry of the Washington Examiner critiques national media coverage of President Trump’s speech in Poland. He complimented America’s allies while calling on Russia to “cease its destabilizing activities in…
“Asian Countries Take the U.S. to School” is a thoughtful education article from The Atlantic. While I disagree with some of the arguments presented, such as the necessity of a…
The BBC reports that: A cold snap sweeping across East Asia has killed at least 85 people in Taiwan and stranded 60,000 tourists in South Korea. Taiwanese media reported deaths…
Remember the minor hubbub back in 2012 when state Rep. George Cleveland chided some left-of-center colleagues for discussing “extreme” poverty in North Carolina? That incident came to mind when this…