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Innovation: The Forgotten Factor

Western innovation is the most effective foreign aid programme ever discovered.

Conor McKinley

4 Apr 2024 · 8 min read

The New Eurasian Century

The current crises in eastern Europe reflect more than just Kremlin mischief-making—they reflect the first fruits of an emerging world order that spans the vastness from Beijing to Berlin. Unlike the longstanding liberal status quo, with its roots in classical civilization and the Enlightenment, this emerging alternative draws upon

Joel Kotkin

15 Feb 2022 · 9 min read

What Putin Really Wants

On Russian President Vladimir Putin’s desk sits a bronze statue of Peter the Great, the tsar who spent his four decades in power waging war on neighbors to establish his country as a great power in Europe. Peter would have understood the nature of the current conflict in Eastern

Christopher Miller

14 Feb 2022 · 8 min read

From India’s Himalayan Border to Our Local Cell Networks, It’s Time to Push Back Against China

The Indian border is only one of the many fronts on which China has been taking advantage of the worldwide economic downturn and political paralysis caused by COVID-19 to move aggressively—an ironic result given the source of the disease.

Cleo Paskal

20 Jun 2020 · 8 min read

How Social Justice Ideologues Hijacked a Legal Regulator

Speech is unconscionable regardless of the principles a person is made to parrot. Today, we are being told to promote “equality, diversity and inclusion.

Murray Klippenstein with Bruce Pardy

11 Feb 2019 · 11 min read

Resolving the Venezuela Crisis: Is There a Case for Outside Military Intervention?

Venezuelans have been voting with their feet to escape the ruin the regime has inflicted on them.

Jeffrey Tayler

1 Oct 2018 · 8 min read

The Fragility of the Liberal World Order

For Kagan, the architects of the post-war order sought to wed America’s new-found superpower to the construction of a world order that reflected the domestic values of America itself: a liberal international order.

Doug Stokes

23 Sep 2018 · 9 min read

Nationalism and Liberal Empire

The nationalist’s nemesis is not the proponent of liberalism or progressivism, but the imperialist.

Leon Hadar

16 Sep 2018 · 11 min read