Black and Blue: Subprime Crisis Hurts Blacks Worst

For nearly as long as the blue social model has existed, one of its strongest selling points has been its potential to improve racial equality in America. Programs like food stamps, affirmative action, Head Start and subsidized housing are aimed at poor and minority communities. Over time, the thinking goes, these will help put these […]

The Global War on Terror Is Over?

It’s a good thing the Obama administration isn’t involved in the global war on terror anymore. Otherwise, we would have American special forces waging all kinds of clandestine operations and wars in places like Mali.Oh wait…Three American commandos were killed in an April 20 incident when their car skidded off the road and into the Niger […]

The Energy Revolution Part One: The Biggest Losers

Over the past year, we’ve been watching a geopolitical revolution get underway. It’s much bigger and more consequential than the Arab Spring, though the legacy media are giving it much less play. It will rearrange the global chessboard, improving the position of some powers, weakening others. It is a powerful boost to American power, reducing […]

Week in Review

The two essays for this week centered on the Middle East. The first pondered what the geopolitical realities might be if Israel’s promise as a significant energy exporter panned out. In a nutshell, it might mean more deference from other important powers (see: the recent visit to Israel by Vladimir Putin), less of an international […]

Will Historical Criticism Pick the Koran to Bits?

Anyone trying to figure out where Islam will go theologically in the next few decades needs to read Peter Berger’s recent post on historical scholarship and the Koran. The same kind of scholarly studies that forced many Christians and Jews to re-evaluate their understandings of the historical origins of their sacred texts are now moving, […]

Companies Dropping The Phone?

The NY Times ran a story this week on a new trend in the way companies communicate with their customers over the phone: they don’t. Or at least a lot of tech companies don’t. That trend is fine by me; I’d much rather deal with a company on a website than be routed through endless […]

Saudi Shocks Paks With Pro-India Turn

In steps that point to Saudi Arabia’s concerns about Pakistan’s unsustainable national course, its fears of Iran and its renewed interest in its security relationship with the United States, the Washington Post reports that Saudi Arabia is stepping up its cooperation with Indian authorities on the sensitive question of Pakistani or Indian nationals suspected of […]

Is India Really On the Rise?

A must read piece by the renowned Indian analyst Sumit Ganguly in Foreign Policy takes on, point by point, the conventional wisdom on India and subjects it to scrutiny. The article raises exactly the kinds of questions that Americans and Indians need to be thinking through, from whether India’s stellar growth is a fait accompli, […]

The Best Washington Read of the Year

Can some of the world’s most prominent people, entrusted with great decisions of state and supported by teams of well educated professional aides be bamboozled for years by an eccentric poseur?Believe it: Felix Krull takes Washington by storm, befriends elites, and poses as a key figure in Iraqi-American diplomacy. Then he murders his wife and […]

Europe’s Hot New Energy Source: Imported Coal

For years, American greens have looked with envy at the situation across the pond. If only we were nice and green like Europe! If only we had higher energy taxes and a cap and trade law!But Europe’s green policies, though expensive, have a way of coming up short in the results department. More evidence appeared […]

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