The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership has never felt more confident that its increasingly capable military could be deployed to successfully seize Taiwan by force. Decades of expanding defense budgets and investment in military modernization have significantly enhanced the CCP’s potential to project power across the Taiwan Strait.
Our adversaries can’t quite believe their good fortune. Had they thought up ways to divide and impoverish America, they could not have improved on our own collective meltdown.
In 1983 U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), which was nicknamed by some as “Star Wars.” SDI was meant to protect the United States from intercontinental ballistic missiles by the use of defensive weapons on both earth and in space. Lasers would play a key role in the technology of destroying incoming missiles. The technology didn’t exist yet, but Reagan proposed that the nation devote itself to developing it.
Notwithstanding the predictable howls of protest from some Europeans, US President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are right to seek a thawing of ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin. If the main global threat is China, Putin has several compelling reasons to play ball.
While recent presidents have occasionally granted pardons and commutations without recommendations from the Justice Department’s pardon attorney, President Trump turned the exception into the norm. We previously analyzed Trump’s circumvention of the pardon attorney at two points during Trump’s presidency.
Claudia Hauer of St. John's College and the Air Force Academy talks about her book Strategic Humanism with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Topics discussed include war, rage, terrorism, and what a modern warrior might learn from Homer.
The Director of the ifo Center for the Economics of Education, Ludger Woessmann, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Woessmann’s new research, which investigates the long-term economic effects of student learning loss during the Covid-19 pandemic.
There is a man who is now very old, an intellectual of unique proportions, an economist, sociologist, philosopher and writer, who when he was young was an idealist and a Marxist. He is a fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institute and is worthy of an introduction to you, the reader.
A public intellectual is somebody who is best-known for an ability to transmit ideas effectively to the general public. Past examples include Voltaire, Bastiat, Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes, and the modern Left can of course rely on Paul Krugman.
Xi Jinping’s rousing speech at the lavish 100-year anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was a reflection of the good, the bad and the (whitewashed) ugly of its complex legacy. In his narcissistic admonishments, warnings and praise of the 95-million-member CCP, Xi has transformed into one-man rule, the risks and dangers ahead for China and the world were discernible.
John Kerry finally got one right last week when he said shifting to a green economy would trigger a huge “economic transformation.” Only problem: The “transformation” will make the world worse, not better.
After the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling Thursday that invalidated California's practice of demanding that charities disclose their largest donors to the state attorney general, lawyer Casey Mattox of the conservative Americans for Prosperity Foundation marveled at the coalition that came together to fight the machine.
In a world where everyone can put their opinion out there, it is helpful to know who you can rely on for a solid perspective on current issues. For the political right in particular, this is becoming much more difficult due to the dilution in the world of podcasts and social media.
