A Dangerous Conflation of Terms: “Anti-Israel” and “Anti-Semitic”

By |2019-03-11T00:32:08-05:00March 10th, 2019|Categories: Conservatism, Foreign Affairs, Israel, Joseph Mussomeli, Liberal, Politics|

Those who make too much of Representative Ilhan Omar’s statement, and who are happy to gain some short-term win by conflating legitimate concern over Israeli influence with anti-Semitism, run the risk of permanently connecting the two terms... I was sitting under a huge oak tree on my college campus reading a political science textbook when [...]

President Trump Is Right About Syria… Even if He’s Wrong

By |2018-12-31T01:13:46-06:00December 30th, 2018|Categories: Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs, Joseph Mussomeli, Middle East, Neoconservatism, Politics, Senior Contributors|

President Trump’s decision to withdraw American troops from Syria, if it holds, is one of the few genuinely courageous acts of his presidency… My first thought when I heard that President Trump was finally taking our troops out of the quagmire called Syria was that he was not really serious. Given how frequently and unpredictably [...]

Syria: Waist Deep in the Big Muddy

By |2018-09-18T11:01:13-05:00September 18th, 2018|Categories: Foreign Affairs, Joseph Mussomeli, Politics, Terrorism, War|

Like his predecessors, President Trump is now convinced that staying the course militarily throughout the Middle East is our only choice, worrying that a “hasty withdrawal would create a vacuum that terrorists would instantly fill." If that is the standard, we will stay forever... Despite this President’s sometimes confused perspective on international relations, his world [...]

Seeking No Monsters: Redefining American Exceptionalism

By |2020-07-27T16:13:55-05:00September 16th, 2018|Categories: Foreign Affairs, Ideology, Joseph Mussomeli, Politics, Timeless Essays|

A foreign policy firmly based on consistency, restraint, and adherence to our founding principles would ultimately achieve what most of us mistakenly believe we already possess: an American Exceptionalism admired and envied by the world. Since the founding of the Republic, “American Exceptionalism” has been a guiding principle for candidates seeking high office. Next only [...]

War, Power, & Supremacy: A Conservative Interpretation

By |2023-04-24T17:55:50-05:00July 31st, 2018|Categories: Foreign Affairs, History, War|Tags: |

There is a readiness to employ American power in its vast and lethal potential in causes that have no carefully defined or concrete “interest” or objective, where the claim to justification is an appeal to a universal or an abstract ideal such as democratization of societies not our own, world peace, security, liberty, or freedom. [...]

Russia: Is it Time to Give Peace a Chance?

By |2019-05-09T12:12:54-05:00July 22nd, 2018|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs, History, Joseph Pearce, Politics, Russia|

Russia is resurrected from the dead, rising from the tomb in which communism had placed it. It is emerging as a Christian country at a time when other erstwhile Christian countries seem intent on abandoning their faith in order to embrace the suicidal culture of death... Patrick Buchanan’s succinct and penetrating essay on President Trump’s [...]

Did President Trump Commit Treason With Vladimir Putin?

By |2019-04-25T15:26:49-05:00July 17th, 2018|Categories: American Republic, Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs, Pat Buchanan, Politics, Russia|

Beginning his joint press conference with Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump declared that U.S. relations with Russia have “never been worse.” He then added pointedly, that just changed “about four hours ago.” It certainly did. With his remarks in Helsinki and at the NATO summit in Brussels, President Trump has signaled a historic shift in [...]

Should President Trump Trust Kim Jong Un?

By |2019-04-25T15:48:15-05:00June 15th, 2018|Categories: American Republic, Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs, Pat Buchanan, Politics|

If the Trump-Kim camaraderie goes south and the crisis of 2017, when war seemed possible, returns, President Trump, as he concedes, will be charged with naivety for having placed his trust in such a tyrant... President Donald Trump appears to belong to what might be called the Benjamin Disraeli school of diplomacy. The British prime [...]

President Trump and the American Piggy Bank

By |2018-06-13T12:37:11-05:00June 13th, 2018|Categories: American Republic, Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs, Pat Buchanan, Political Economy, Politics|

At the G-7 summit in Canada, President Donald Trump described America as “the piggy bank that everybody is robbing.” After he left Quebec, his director of Trade and Industrial Policy, Peter Navarro, added a few parting words for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: “There’s a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in [...]

Viktor Orbán, George Soros, & the Battle for Hungary

By |2019-12-03T17:16:09-06:00June 12th, 2018|Categories: Europe, Foreign Affairs, Government, Political Economy, Politics, Viktor Orbán|

Many Hungarians clearly perceive their way of life and their country as under threat and sense that influential individuals like George Soros would like them fundamentally transformed. This is a fight between nationalists and anti-nationalists… The victory of Viktor Orbán and his party Fidesz in the Hungarian elections last month elicited the predictable flurry of [...]

Christianity: The Last Hope for Europe

By |2019-12-03T17:22:27-06:00February 23rd, 2018|Categories: Christianity, Europe, Foreign Affairs, Immigration, Viktor Orbán|

If everything continues in this way, then the cities of Europe will clearly have majority Muslim populations, our identity and our nations as we know them will cease to exist, our worst nightmares will have become reality. The West will fall. Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Prime Minister Orbán's State of the [...]

What U.S. Foreign Service Officers Should Know

By |2018-10-08T13:12:01-05:00February 14th, 2018|Categories: Democracy, Featured, Foreign Affairs, Politics|

The Foreign Service Officer should be ever aware that the identity of the persons to whom he is representing America depends on their culture, and on the features of that culture to which the regime that reigns over these persons gives priority… Foreign service officers represent the United States of America. The substance of what is [...]

A Morning with Big Brother

By |2019-02-25T13:23:35-06:00February 3rd, 2018|Categories: Culture, Economics, Europe, Featured, Foreign Affairs, Freedom, Joseph Pearce, Politics, Television|

TV screens are everywhere, seemingly omnipresent; difficult to avoid; gatecrashing our minds and demanding our attention, whether we want it or not; techno-rapists which force themselves upon us… I have long since broken the habit of watching television. We don’t have TV in the house and I relish all the good things that fill the [...]

Lebanon the Magnificent: An Inquiry Into Exile and Terror

By |2022-07-20T07:35:17-05:00January 30th, 2018|Categories: Culture, Foreign Affairs, Freedom, History, Islam, Marcia Christoff Reina, Politics, Religion, Terrorism|

Sphinx-like Lebanon—best known for its businessmen, bankers, and civil wars—is the ultimate example in explaining the inexplicable in the Mideast. If the dog now wants something, he wags his tail; impatient of Master’s stupidity in not understanding the perfectly distinct and expressive speech, he adds vocal expression—he barks—and finally an expression of attitude—he mimes or [...]

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