Imperialism

Ferguson’s ‘Doom’ offers interesting insights

Aaron Sibarium of the Washington Free Beacon reviews the latest book from historian Niall Ferguson. The book is a history of disasters and our increasing impotence in the face of…

Martin Center column explores college students’ turn away from history

David Kaiser writes for the Martin Center about college students’ diminishing interest in studying history. I taught history from 1976 through 2013 at Harvard, Carnegie-Mellon, the Naval War College, and…

Lowry laments latest Kaepernick caper

Rich Lowry of National Review Online takes on the latest pronouncement from former pro football quarterback Colin Kaepernick. In the torrent of idiotic commentary unleashed by the killing of Qasem…

Liberalism and imperialism

Yoram Hazony identifies links between the “isms” in a National Review Online column. My liberal friends and colleagues do not seem to understand that the advancing liberal construction is a…

Placing the Crimean crisis in historical context

Thomas Donlan takes a break from offering well-informed economic observations this week and instead devotes his Barron’s editorial commentary to the history and possible future of Crimea. Crimea is a…

Putin’s imperialism can’t hide Russia’s problems

Fareed Zakaria argues in the latest TIME magazine that Russian strongman Vladimir Putin’s provocative action against his Ukrainian neighbors signifies Putin’s focus on Russia’s past. The crisis in Crimea reminds…

Weapons of Mass Expansion

Pontification

I’m trying to get with the groove and pick up a new, un-anti-American stance, but I keep hitting a roadblock: Who will we invade for money/resources when enough of the…

Hugo Chavez confuses Mars with James Cameron’s blue planet

Other than that, he just recited the plot. Per Reuters: Capitalism may be to blame for the lack of life on the planet Mars, Venezuela’s socialist President Hugo Chavez said…

And Here It Is in This Generation

This collective of fist-pumping Che aficionados from UNC-Asheville seems to think abrogating the Constitution, with all its checks and balances, is the cure for imperialism. Tyranny of the oft-manipulated majority,…

This is rich

The staff of a bookstore called Sedition Books are upset that arson investigators called them anti-American and anti-federal government. Firefighters arrived immediately and acted professionally, Browning and Edgell said. But…

Seriously, why are so many scholars Marxists?

A FrontPage Magazine column by Barry Loberfeld details Marx’s falsification of data, the tri-part confusion in Marx’s plans for who should get the wealth, the horrific results of Marxism in…