U.S.-China developments can change by the day. But that’s exactly why standing back to take in the long view matters. Here, historian, decorated general, and former national security adviser H.R. McMaster takes stock.
A decade ago, the charter-school movement was moving from strength to strength. As student enrollment surged and new schools opened in cities across the country, America's first black president provided much-needed political cover from teachers' union attacks. Yet today, with public support fading and enrollment stalling nationwide — and with Democratic politicians from Elizabeth Warren to Joe Biden disregarding, downplaying, or publicly disavowing the charter movement — the situation for America's charter schools has become virtually unrecognizable.
I first moved west to California in February 1994, about a month after the Northridge Earthquake struck Los Angeles and four months before O. J. Simpson’s ride up the 405 became a live-televised national spectacle.
In this second episode of Battlegrounds, H.R. McMaster and Ambassador Ahn discuss the daunting challenges South Korea faces with North Korea’s nuclear and missile ambitions and China’s political and economic aggression. South Korea’s relationship with Japan is increasingly strained due to historical grievances as South Korea-U.S. relations are complicated due to anti-alliance sentiment among a vocal minority of South Koreans as well as demands from American leaders that South Korea share more of the defense burden.
“When markets fail, use markets.” The above is a quote from Arnold Kling, the person who started this blog. I thought of that when reading Sally Satel, “Rethink Crisis Response,” Reason, October 2020. The whole October issue, by the way, is focused on fixing the police, and it’s excellent.
interview with H. R. McMastervia The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Hoover Institution fellows H. R. McMaster and Victor Davis Hanson discuss McMaster's new book, Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World. VDH also talks about his new NRO essay on the dangers of conventional wisdom.
Hoover Institution fellow H. R. McMaster discusses Russian President Vladimir Putin and says he sought to help President Trump recognize the need for a tougher suite of policies against Russia after its aggression in Eastern Europe.
featuring H. R. McMastervia The Christian Science Monitor
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
U.S.-China developments can change by the day. But that’s exactly why standing back to take in the long view matters. Here, historian, decorated general, and former national security adviser H.R. McMaster takes stock.
By stifling debate and dissent, Xi has made China’s system rigid and fear-ridden. Xi’s centralisation of power and controls on information flows has slowed decision-making, as was evident in the handling of the Covid-19 outbreak in January, when the authorities wasted a full fortnight in getting Xi’s approval before imposing the quarantine on Wuhan.
Artists at the "service of politics" are "despicable and untalented" individuals longing for power, the master of classical Iranian music Mohammad Reza Shajarian recently claimed.
In 2016, I went back to my home country, Italy, for a longer period than usual. Forced to watch Italian TV again, I was quite stricken by a pretty unique fact: at the end of their advertisements, the most popular Italian snack brands were proudly announcing that their products did not contain palm oil. Similarly, at the supermarket, the label “senza olio di palma” (without palm oil) was displayed on the packaging. This was not the case five years earlier, in 2011, when I left Italy for Malaysia.
Our wonderful General blew up Scarborough’s FAKE two year narrative. Thank you General H.R. McMaster. Look forward to reading your book, “Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World.”
President Trump's former national security adviser H.R. McMaster said that Trump and other U.S. leaders are “making it easy” for Russian President Vladimir Putin to meddle in the U.S. election when they echo divisive messages.
President Trump delivered a pre-taped speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday and said the world must hold China "accountable" for the coronavirus. Rebecca Lissner joins CBSN to discuss that plus her new book, "An Open World: How America Can Win the Contest for Twenty-First-Century Order."
