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Jul 1, 20196 min read
Postmodernist Conservatism
Despite the 2016 election receding more into memory with each day and 2020 taking shape, elite “movement” conservatives have yet to show...
MC
Sep 14, 20187 min read
Having the Conversation
If there was a list compiled of the world’s current most important thinkers and visionaries then surely US President Donald Trump’s name...
MC
Jun 21, 20186 min read
The Singapore Sling
It’s a batting average no one involved should be proud of. For the past generation, sitting American presidents have tried confrontation,...
Jeremiah
Apr 25, 201812 min read
Eating Hats: The Korean Thaw
The recent stunning revelation this that CIA Director (and the likely next Secretary of State) Mike Pompeo met with North Korea’s leader...
MC
Apr 20, 20188 min read
Trading Barbs...For Now
Everyone pause and take a deep breath. Donald Trump is right -- the United States is not in a trade war with China. Yet. As the rhetoric...
MC
Mar 13, 201810 min read
Trump's Nixon Moment
Be still the palpitating hearts of those who see in the above title an analogy to Watergate (though that may yet come from Robert...
MC
Feb 20, 20185 min read
What Trump Teaches Us About Education
Perhaps it is providential that a figure so garishly inarticulate as Donald Trump landed in the White House when he did. His very...
MC
Feb 5, 20184 min read
Teflon Don Strikes Back: The Trump Era --Part Three
1.Elephants in the Room The Watergate scandal was a laborious exercise in connecting the dots, linking some hapless amateur burglars to...
MC
Jan 29, 20186 min read
The Trump Era: Part Two (Mr. GOP)
It’s surreal watching North Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham leap to President Donald Trump’s defense on cable TV, denouncing “this...
MC
Jan 22, 20189 min read
Sanity Check
In history, everything old invariably becomes new again. Was this petty, snarling man, so seemingly utterly lacking in presidential...
Jeremiah
Jan 1, 20185 min read
The Trump Era: Part One
There he is, the President, duality personified: both immovable object and irresistible force, unsmiling with slitty eyes beneath that...
Jeremiah
Nov 28, 201710 min read
Becalmed At Home: Eroding Abroad
Almost a year into the Trump presidency, the United States domestically has not gone over a cliff. It's constitution-guaranteed system...
MC
Nov 7, 20179 min read
The Pitfalls of Positive Thinking
Donald Trump is a self-help advocate. He always has tried to create his own reality by saying what he wants to be true. Where many see...
MC
Sep 21, 201712 min read
Trump on the Couch
During his failed 2016 campaign for the Republican nomination, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush predicted that, if elected, Donald Trump...
MC
Jul 7, 20179 min read
Freedom Day: America at 241
The black and white footage flickers intermittently, grainy with age, occasionally shifting out of focus. Large auditorium doors swing...
MC
Jun 23, 20178 min read
In the Wings: Mike Pence's Quiet Audition
A few months ago, during the most vicious exchanges in the 2016 US presidential election, a popular refrain among those dismayed by both...
MC
Jun 1, 20178 min read
An Innocent Abroad: Trump's Trip
Little matters more to Donald Trump, the living brand-turned-American president, than pomp and imagery. Trump staffed his government (at...
MC
May 25, 20177 min read
Trump Besieged
President Donald Trump faces a significant challenge over the next few months to hang on to office and survive the gravest of charges...
MC
May 9, 20175 min read
Method in His Madness: Trump & China Part Two
Most presidents of the United States search for a catchphrase that best encapsulates their vision for the nation: JFK called his “The New...
MC
May 5, 20175 min read
Method in His Madness: The Trump Foreign Policy
Most presidents of the United States search for a catchphrase that best encapsulates their vision for the nation: JFK called his “The New...
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