May 2026.1 I. Context: The End of the Inter-Cold War Period The roughly three-decade interval following the collapse of the Soviet Union, during which China and Russia turned inward toward domestic consolidation and the United States broadly upheld the post-1945… Read More ›
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Trump’s War
Beyond Trump’s inability to cultivate understanding lies an important issue. Who shapes the fragments of reality he does absorb? How did his picture of Iran emerge? How far did his picture of Iran emerge from private conversations with Benjamin Netanyahu?… Read More ›
Trump Voters: They Have Their Reasons
Some 75 million U.S. citizens will vote for Donald Trump this time around. That’s much more than the total populations of, say, Australia (27m), Canada (42m), or Korea (52m), for example. Why do they vote for Trump? It is not… Read More ›
The Most Important Election of our Lifetime
Preamble I am forever wondering whether I really am a pinko leftist Commie Canadian Euro-Brussels bootlicker who cried into my eco tote bag when Hillary lost… or whether I’m just a rational centrist who realizes that progressive tax regimes help… Read More ›