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250 years ago, Thomas Paine’s Common Sense swayed the masses and set the stage for the U.S. Declaration of Independence.   “It is not because a part of the government is elective, that makes it less a despotism, if the persons so elected possess afterwards, as a parliament, unlimited powers. Election, in this case, becomes […]

  The nomination of Kevin Warsh to replace Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve Chair has many people wondering: What makes a good Fed chair? The answer, it turns out, depends on the environment in which the chair will operate. The characteristics that matter most for running an independent central bank differ from those for a […]

  The launch of the United States’ Operation Epic Fury is a logical and pragmatic consequence of Middle Eastern and geopolitical developments of the last 40 years. Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which overthrew Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the hardline Islamist regime in Tehran has pursued a campaign to eliminate Israel and fight the U.S. […]

  At the Munich Security Conference, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz delivered a remarkable speech. In many respects, it was refreshing and stood out positively from the lukewarm and uninspired addresses of the past two decades. As expected at Munich, he focused on foreign and security policy, European cohesion and transatlantic relations. Notably, he projected a […]

A self-declared democratic socialist as mayor of Big Apple*.   “We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about”. Zohran Mamdani I It is rather unfortunate but hardly disputable that Socialism, despite its theoretical blunders, its catastrophic record, and all […]