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Aug 10, 20198 min read
Rage Against the Night
One minute. In scarcely 60 seconds a stream of bullets fuelled by irrational hate streams into crowds of partygoers on a Dayton, Ohio...
MC
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
Apr 16, 20193 min read
Hoosier Rising
By any stretch of the imagination, Peter Buttigieg’s resume is an accomplished one. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard with a BA...
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
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 28, 20177 min read
The Asian Powder Keg: North Korea
There has been much discussion in the both the mainstream media and the blogosphere as to what a Second Korean War might entail, much of...
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 7, 20178 min read
Madam President
Socio-political, economic, academic and media elites love to throw the word “disruption” around with such abandon one would think they...
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...
Mark Chin
Feb 25, 201710 min read
What's Left Behind: Obama's Foreign Policy Legacy to Trump
Impressed by Donald Trump’s announcement of his first foreign-policy acts as president: building the Mexico Wall, the No-Muslims Wall,...
Mark Chin
Feb 17, 20176 min read
The Trump Storm
“To be on the wire is life; the rest is waiting,” intones the fictional Joe Gideon in Bob Fosse’s underrated film ‘All That Jazz.” It’s a...
Mark Chin
Feb 8, 20176 min read
The Blitzkrieg Presidency
“Blitzkrieg” first exploded into the global lexicon in 1939/40 as Nazi Germany’s forces stormed across western Europe with all the...
Mark Chin
Jan 30, 20178 min read
Riding the Wave
November 8th, 2016 has come and gone. So has January 20th, 2017. It is worth recognizing that the sun rose and fell as usual those days,...
Mark Chin
Jan 12, 20179 min read
The Eagle & the Bear: Trump Vs. China
Donald Trump’s election as America’s forty-fifth President, has met with little tangible comment from China’s leaders. Well, little...
Mark Chin
Dec 23, 20168 min read
The Wolf At Our Door: the Syrian Tragedy
Syrian army flags fly over the burned-out, scarred remnants of Aleppo. Huge smoke clouds still slash the sky in blackish swathes from...
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