Essays
Europe's Future
Let Data Flow

Europe shouldn’t sacrifice the future of its digital economy for short-term political posturing.

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Harper Out—Trudeau In
What Does Canada’s New PM Mean for the US?

Differences on Keystone XL, ISIL, and the F-35 aside, the young, charismatic Trudeau will likely forge better, more constructive U.S.-Canadian relations.

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USSCAS Testimony
Global Challenges and Grand Strategy

The following is written testimony delivered to the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services on October 22, 2015.

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The Uses of Air Power
No-Fly Zone No Answer for Syria

Humanitarian “safe zones” are a great idea in theory. But they’re a bad, dangerous idea in the context of the Syrian civil war.

The West and Russia
Forget Russia in Syria

Putin has his agenda. It’s time we stop reacting to his—and get back to ours.

America in the 21st Century
Where Are the Whigs (When We Need Them)?

A key political tradition that helped build this country and guide its great statesmen deserves a revival.

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America's Crony Capitalism
Karl Marx to the Rescue?

Frustrated and emasculated, many Americans blame “capitalism” for their woes, but what they really hate is America’s neo-feudalism, in its modern-day, crony capitalist form.

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beyond blue
The Twenty-First Century Retirement Model Is Coming into Focus

The American people are still caught in the transition between two different retirement systems. That needs to change, and it will.

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Fortress Russia
The End of an Epoch

The third act of Russia’s civilizational drama is near. The price Russia and the outside world will pay for the end of the former’s system will be much higher than they paid for the Soviet Union’s demise.

If It's Broke...
Our Peculiar Reform Challenge

An introduction to the oddities and limits of institutional political reform in the United States.

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