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  • Trump—Once and Future King?

    Trump—Once and Future King?0

    “I don’t know if he’ll run in 2024 or not. But if he does, I’m pretty sure he will win the nomination.” So says Mitt Romney, the sole Republican senator to have voted twice to convict President Donald J. Trump of impeachable acts. But is it possible Trump could win the nomination in 2024?  What

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  • Biden: No New Cold Wars or Democracy Crusades

    Biden: No New Cold Wars or Democracy Crusades0

    “What is America’s mission?” is a question that has been debated since George Washington’s Farewell Address in 1797. At last week’s Munich Security Conference, President Joe Biden laid out his vision as to what is America’s mission. And the contrast with the mission enunciated by George W. Bush in his second inaugural could not have

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  • Is Biden Prepared to Lose Afghanistan?

    Is Biden Prepared to Lose Afghanistan?0

    Is President Joe Biden prepared to preside over the worst U.S. strategic defeat since the fall of Saigon in 1975? For that may be what’s at stake if Biden follows through on the 2020 peace deal with the Taliban to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan by May 1—just two months from now.     

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  • Looking Forward as the West Declines

    Looking Forward as the West Declines0

    Germany’s defeat in World War II was accelerated by Hitler’s unwillingness to accept reports at odds with his increasingly fantastical view of reality. His self-deceptions were believed with such firmness that, by mid-1944, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel concluded that the Führer was living in a Wolkenkuckucksheim (“cloud cuckoo land”). The same diagnosis applies to the establishment

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  • Will the Radical Left Reunite the GOP?

    Will the Radical Left Reunite the GOP?0

    “Our historic, patriotic and beautiful movement to Make America Great Again has only just begun.” So said Citizen Trump Saturday on his acquittal by the Senate of the impeachment article of “incitement of insurrection” in the Jan. 6 invasion of the Capitol.          “I look forward to continuing our incredible journey together

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  • Dark Winter of a Grand Old Party

    Dark Winter of a Grand Old Party0

    It has been a dreadful three months for the Grand Old Party.           On Nov. 3, President Donald Trump seemed to have lost the White House by narrowly losing three crucial blue states he had won in 2016—Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania—and Georgia and Arizona as well. Trump immediately mounted an acrimonious two-month

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