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Category Archives: International issues
The authoritarian moment
David Brooks writes, progressives are getting better and more aggressive at silencing dissenting behavior. All sorts of formerly legitimate opinions have now been deemed beyond the pale on elite campuses. Speakers have been disinvited and careers destroyed. The boundaries are … Continue reading
Posted in culture, David Brooks, International issues
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Yoram Hazony on classical liberalism
He writes, Modern classical liberals, inheriting the rationalism of Hobbes and Locke, believe they can speak authoritatively to the political needs of every human society, everywhere. In his seminal work, “Liberalism” (1927), the great classical-liberal economist Ludwig von Mises thus … Continue reading
Posted in International issues, Libertarian Thought
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Dueling views of China
Tyler Cowen said, in terms of human talent, GDP, China right now is in most ways a peer country to the United States. We’re not ready for that, mentally or emotionally. In contrast, Peter Zeihan sees China in a precarious … Continue reading
Ralph Peters sounds like David Halberstam
Peters writes, It really comes down to that blood test: What will men die for? The answer, were we willing to open our eyes, is that more Afghans will volunteer to die for the Taliban than for our dream of … Continue reading
Posted in International issues, terrorism
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Random North Korea thoughts
The missile launch makes the WaPo think of President Trump. It makes me think of Bob Gallucci. 1. I had a course from him at Swarthmore College. 2. He negotiated the deal in 1994 that was hailed as stopping North … Continue reading
Posted in International issues
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Economic Indicators to Follow in the Trump Era?
Tyler Cowen gives three. if the worst predictions about Trump turn out to be true, the negative consequences ought to show up in some of the world’s most fragile spots. He suggests following an index of Baltic stocks, an index … Continue reading
The State of Arab Youth
From a UN development report press release. Today, youth in the region are more educated, more connected and more mobile than ever before. Pointer from Timothy Taylor. We know from Martin Gurri’s The Revolt of the Public that this is … Continue reading
Trump Explanation to Flatter the Right
William Voegeli writes, When Trump says political correctness cripples our ability to think, talk, and act against terrorism, he’s signaling that our response to terrorism is severely compromised by Islamophobia-phobia—the closed-minded, contrived, overwrought, unwarranted, misdirected, counterproductive fear that accurate threat … Continue reading
Posted in International issues
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Tyler Cowen on Brexit, Steven Pinker, and Joseph McCarthy
And also other topics. The link goes to a Twitter post with a video. Judge for yourself, but to me it sounds like he is telling a PSST story. He says that, for better or worse, the UK spent the … Continue reading
What I’ve Been Reading
Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and its Allies, by Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn. About a week ago, he was mentioned as a potential Trump running mate. His book became available on … Continue reading