The Autocrats’ Playbook You have to hand it to Hungary’s Viktor Orban. Although he didn’t write The Autocrats’ Playbook, he has most certainly – and successfully – followed it. Of course, you also have to hand it to Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, China’s Xi...
America’s Forthcoming Foreign Policy Crisis “We’ve got a health crisis and an economic crisis. The only thing missing is a foreign policy crisis.” – Robert Kagan, Washington Post, March 27, 2020. Not so fast, Mr. Kagan. All the ingredients for a foreign policy crisis are...
Winter Has Come It’s Economic Winter in America … and it’s cold. How much colder might it get? Very cold indeed! In a period of 4 short weeks, a sudden Covid-19 medical and economic blizzard dumped record “snowfalls” on Washington State, California, New York, Illinois, Florida, the...
The Times They Are A’Changin’ Most of us have not lived through a “force majeure” event: a hot war … or a horrific natural disaster … or an epidemic … yet alone a pandemic. There have been at least three cataclysmic economic Crashes over the past...
The Convergence of Communism and Capitalism What happens when politicians embrace and blend the essence of both Communism and Capitalism? What strange potion do they brew? Remember the Red Menace, the Soviet Union and Red China? Remember the Commie, Pinko, Liberal Leftists of the ’60s...