Paisano Elegy: Ignorance, Aspiration, and the Future of American Politics
Working class authenticity is all the rage these days on both sides of the Atlantic. Even before Donald Trump’s...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Paisano Elegy: Ignorance, Aspiration, and the Future of American Politics
A nation must think before it acts.
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Does Donald Trump Believe in American Civil Religion? If So, Which One?
My subject today is American Civil Religion, its problematical relationship to Biblical religion, and especially its sometimes-nefarious influence on...
What is an American?
What does it mean to be an American? Is being an American a function of blood, race, or language,...
Field of Fright
When Michael Flynn (with Michael Ledeen assisting) published The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War...
Rogue One: A Terrorist Story?
Glorifying resistance efforts in film programs the audience to root for the underdog. A traditional cliché, but what happens...
Art of the Doge?
A few years ago, my beloved wife finally persuaded me to accompany her on a trip to Italy. It...
Foreign Policy Challenges Facing the Next American President
Foreign policy plays a paradoxical role in U.S. presidential elections. As a global power with historically unparalleled influence, the...
Exceptionalism, Empire, and the Dark Side of National Greatness
This piece, originally a lecture given at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, contextualizes the notion of exceptionalism by looking at...
Kanan Makiya and the Rejection of Victimhood
Exiled from his homeland and with a notorious intelligence agency attempting to assassinate him, one could excuse Makiya for...
Drone Warfare in the Cinematic Crosshairs
Over the last decade, the spread of drone technology to militaries and violent non-state actors around the world has...