by Henry Oliner | Jul 29, 2018 | Foreign policy
from Victor Davis Hanson at National Review, Russianism: Hillary Clinton was instrumental in persuading the U.S. government to green-light sales of American uranium to Putin-connected companies. It is surely not a coincidence that Russian interests paid Bill Clinton a...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 3, 2017 | Foreign policy
from James Dobbins at The WSJ, American Retrenchment Is a Golden Oldie But we don’t know how the country will respond to the next crisis. It took the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, nine months after Luce’s call to arms, to push the U.S. into World War II....
by Henry Oliner | Jun 12, 2017 | Foreign policy
from Thomas Donlan at Barron’s, Ignorance is Not Bliss German Chancellor Angela Merkel has had the chance to take Trump’s measure in the recent NATO and G-7 meetings, and her reading was not good. She reported this to her citizens: “The times in which we could...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 11, 2016 | Foreign policy, History, Israel
Ike’s Gamble by Michael Doran is an account of the 1956 Suez Crisis with a perspective different from many previous ones which were directed from narratives from CIA players at the time. The United States under Eisenhower supported the rise of independent nations and...
by Henry Oliner | May 1, 2016 | Foreign policy
from The World According to Trump by Charles Krauthammer in National Review: Both the Left and the Right have a long history of advocating American retreat and retrenchment. The difference is that liberals want to come home because they think we are not good enough...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 28, 2016 | Foreign policy, Politics, Social, Taxes
from The Great Degeneration by Niall Ferguson Experts on economic competitiveness, like Michael Porter of Harvard Business School, define the term to include the ability of government to pass effective laws; the protection of physical and intellectual property rights...
