Senior Obama administration officials were aware from 2012 that a war to overthrow Assad would inevitably become a sectarian bloodbath.
Turkey’s Totalitarian Democracy
Reflections on the emerging totalitarian form of Islamic democracy.
Why the United States and the West Can’t Win With Turkey
Examining the perfectly closed loops of circular Islamist thinking.
How Mark Twain Became a Free Trader
The 1888 Great Debate over US trade policy inspired literary luminaries like Walt Whitman and Mark Twain to take sides.
When Protectionism Dominated American Politics
How the 1888 elections decided the protectionist course of U.S. economic expansion for decades to come.
Silicon Valley: A Close-Up
Is Silicon Valley the 21st century American equivalent of the inferno/purgatory? Or of paradise?
Trump: Turn All of America Into Another Atlantic City
Donald Trump made many false promises to the people of Atlantic City. Americans can’t say they weren’t properly forewarned.
Time to Ditch Rawls?
We now live in a world where liberal democracies, principally the United States, do not affirm the principles of liberalism.
Trump’s Mega-Fear: Beaten By a Woman
What could possibly explain the increasing bizarreness of the Trump campaign? It must have to do with the other candidate in the race























