November 14, 2017

Is the left still winning the long game?

In 1998, Balint Vazsonyi wrote America's Thirty Years War, one of the most insightful analyses in decades of the political landscape.  He wrote:  For the past thirty years, all aspects of our lives – and all of our insti...

March 3, 2013

Italy Shouts Back

The anti-austerity backlash in Europe has claimed another victim:  Italy's leader of a technocratic government, Mario Monti.  Installed as a caretaker prime minister in November 2011, after the Italian government under Silvio Berlusconi fai...

February 22, 2007

Let's Agree to Disagree

Barack Obama's official campaign website makes the following claim:  "Americans are tired of divisive ideological politics, which is why Senator Obama has reached out to Republicans to find areas of common ground."He might be reaching ...

January 30, 2007

Group Think Is Killing Us in Iraq

"Know your enemy."     Sun Tzu, 6th century BC"We are having a huge time, still, identifying the enemy."     Lee Hamilton, Co-Chairman, Iraq Study Group, December 7, 2006Making a mistake in ...