North America
The zombification of US national security
Time to drive a stake through the heart of these establishmentarian ideas, which are super dysfunctional but never seem to die.
January 02, 2023
foreign policy
Washington Politics
Survey: Americans want to scale back military entanglements
But Morning Consult should be taken to task for calling this impulse a 'preference for isolationism' versus 'engagement.'
December 02, 2022
Washington Politics
The battle for who owns 'conservative statecraft'
Former Bush/Trump era interventionist Nadia Schadlow wants to claim the label, but this author is drawing a hard line in the sand.
November 11, 2022
Europe
Rand Paul: Promoting negotiations over war doesn't make you a Putin sympathizer
The senator told a friendly audience of conservatives that there is no reason to 'throw out our principal beliefs.'
April 01, 2022
Asia-Pacific
No 'Putin apologia' and certainly not new: the Old American Right on war
This is actually your great-grandfather's non-interventionist conservatism, and it is making a comeback.
March 22, 2022
North America
How the Blob mislabels 'allies' to manipulate and get its way
The US has a bad habit of acquiring clients and partners and exaggerating their importance to justify continued entanglements.
August 06, 2021
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