A short history of the radicalization of American politics in the 21st centuryThe best way to approach the issue is by trying to identify the moment when the growing divergence began to occur. The high point of bipartisan centrism and consensus were the late 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. Reagan had just introduced a new... See More »
Time for Hollywood to turn against Moscow, for good.For too long, mainstream movies and series have shied away from taking a clear stand on the issue of an aggressive, dangerous and evil Russia. In the past, Hollywood produced many movies that cinematically captured the geopolitical moment of their... See More »
The Connection between Anti-liberalism, Immigration and TrumpThere are many people in Europe and North America who seem to think that one can be restrictive on immigration and not be axiomatically anti-liberal as a consequence. Or that believing in the existence of universal, unalienable rights and liberties... See More »
Resignation or relief? The proper way to assess the cease-fire agreement.Israel is a democracy and its government has made a decision that might very well be wrong but it‘s an understandable decision, nonetheless. I had high hopes for Israel‘s invasion of Gaza. I thought, the pronouncements calling for the destruction,... See More »
A list of movies for cinephiles with neoconservative leanings- Mississippi Burning -> Willem Dafoe’s and Gene Hackman‘s actions as Federal agents represent a federal intervention to push back against endemic civil rights violations in the South, aided and abetted by the local authorities - Charlie Wilson‘s... See More »
Trump‘s victory and the role of class.While I personally detest the term “class” on account of its Marxist connotations I‘m, nevertheless, going to use it as a technical term in this post. If people with a lower income are supposed to be voting for the party or candidate that offers... See More »
The Houthi‘s future is now in doubt.Back in the early months of 2024, I was hoping that the incessant missile, rocket and drone barrages coupled with the open acts of piracy would encourage the Biden administration to take more drastic steps to seriously disrupt and degrade Ansar... See More »
The long-overdue downfall of the Assad regime is now at hand.After almost 14 gruesome years of civil war, the diverse Syrian people of all corners of the country have now finally changed the situation on the ground - by themselves. The Kurdish SDF is coordinating with the HTS, liberating Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor... See More »
Good news from the LevantNo, I‘m not talking about a premature and too narrow cease-fire agreement in Lebanon but about the liberation of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo from the clutches of a withering Assad regime that evidently can’t escape perpetual decline.... See More »
Could you name 3 things you hope Trump might plausibly do & 3 things he might plausibly refrain from in office?
Was Trump‘s victory, in part, the product of a growing receptivity to conspiratorial worldviews among Americans?
Could Javier Milei (who‘s been at Mar-a-Lago) be the foreign statesman capable of turning Trump into more of Free Trader?
A list of productive spending cuts Congress could pass in a 2025 budget reconciliation bill- Public sector wages are on average 17% higher than private-sector equivalents while benefits are 47% higher than those of private-sector workers. Converging private and public sector retirement benefits could save upwards of $230 billion over ten... See More »
A changed Republican PartyThe transformation of the Republican Party is staggering. For 35 years, beginning in 1980 coherent and productive neoliberal ideas on fiscal policy and enlightened neoconservative thoughts on foreign policy materially influenced the positions and... See More »
