by Henry Oliner | Mar 16, 2016 | Foreign policy, Politics
From Bret Stephens at the WSJ, Barack Obama Checks Out: Summing up the president’s worldview, Mr. Goldberg describes him as a “Hobbesian optimist”—which philosophically must be the equivalent of a Jew for Jesus. But Mr. Obama has shown that he lacks Hobbes’s...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 25, 2016 | Foreign policy
from Victor Davis Hanson in National Review Online, The Costs of Abandoning Messy Wars Donald Trump has rightly reminded us during his campaign that Americans are sick and tired of costly overseas interventions. But what Trump forgets is that too often the world does...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 26, 2016 | Foreign policy, Politics
from Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish, Conservatism Isn’t Dead: If conservatives want to win elections, their platform is going to have to be populist and realistic. That means small government, but the cuts have to start with the left’s sacred cows,...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 5, 2016 | Foreign policy, Politics
from The Wall Street Journal, Bret Stephens’ America’s Year of Living Dangerously The U.S. has lived through dangerous years before—1968 and 1980 come to mind. Hindsight is often the great redeemer, but both years ended with the American people making...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 5, 2015 | Foreign policy
from The Middle East As it Will Be by Eliot Cohen in The American Interest: The future will be ghastly for that part of the world, and all that borders it. The United States will be somewhat distant from this whirlpool of blood, but only somewhat—we, our allies, and...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 17, 2015 | Foreign policy
from Leon Wieseltier at The Atlantic, The Iran Deal and The Rut of History. excerpt: But what is the alternative? This is the question that is supposed to silence all objections. It is, for a start, a demagogic question. This agreement was designed to prevent Iran...
