An American tourist in Russia
Brant von Goble 
Chinese Mandarins, American Knights: Law and the Matrix of Values Development As important as the values of a nation are, equally significant is the mechanism by which they evolve. In this section, we will examine the different matrices of values development in the United States and China. More specifically, we will consider them within the … Read more
Globalism’s Failures and What to Do About Them When the President of the United States declares that Vladimir Putin, the long-ruling leader of a significant nuclear power, must go—must be removed from office—we can assume this is more than idle banter or the ravings of an unhinged old man. At best, it is an act … Read more
We Lose by Winning Less than one year ago, the United States exited Afghanistan. Despite being longer than the Vietnam War, the war in Afghanistan remained largely out of the public discourse for the majority of its duration. Thus, it is easy to forget how many suffered and how great the cost for a war … Read more
The last 600 years—the totality of modern history—were an invention of the West. Art, industry, law, music, philosophy, science, and technology—there was no field of consequence we did not dominate. From Shakespeare, Beethoven, and Nietzsche to Newton, Poincaré, and Watson and Crick, almost every thinker and doer of note was a product of Western schools, … Read more
Application of Theories to Circumvent Thucydides’s Trap The goal of this text—to provide a plan of action and source of inspiration to those who wish to prevent America from falling into Thucydides’s Trap—and its relationship to the theories thus covered should not be difficult to surmise. Positional Insecurity Theory, Substitution Theory, and Distraction Theory all … Read more