An American tourist in Russia
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
Defining the Elite, Theories of Conflict, Theories of Control The rise of China is inevitable. The decline of the American empire is no less so. This constitutes the greatest shift of global power in several hundred years. All we—the American people—can do is choose how to respond to the foreordained. Without action on our part, … Read more