Foreign Policy

Why the CIA No Longer Works—and How to Fix It

Charles S. Faddis | October 2023

CIA Recruiters no longer focus on the key psychological traits critical to success in the world of spying. They look at academic degrees, existing levels of language proficiency, and increasingly at things like skin color and sexual orientation. Training has been softened and is increasingly formbook in nature. We act as if anyone can be taught to conduct espionage—as if this is no longer an arcane craft to be practiced by a select group of unique people.

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Imperialism: Lessons From History

Victor Davis Hanson | July/August 2023

Some suggest today that America is behaving imperialistically—we do, after all, have some 600 military bases around the world. So it is worth recalling some historical examples of imperialism to understand what the idea entails.

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Complications of the Ukraine War

Christopher Caldwell | September 2022

There are reasons why the U.S. might want to project power into the Black Sea region. But we must not ignore that the politics of the region are extraordinarily complex and that the Ukraine conflict is full of paradoxes and optical illusions. And unless we learn to respect the complexity of the situation, we risk turning it into something more dangerous, both for Europeans and for ourselves.

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Our Increasingly Unrecognizable Civilization

Mark Steyn | April/May 2021

If we don’t have open and honest elections, control of our borders, and equality before the law, then we don’t have the conditions for politics or free government.

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Facing Up to the China Threat

Brian T. Kennedy | September 2020

History will record that America’s China policy from the 1970s until recently was very costly because it involved a great deal of self-deception about the nature of the Chinese regime and the men who were running it.

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Thoughts on the Current Crisis

Larry P. Arnn | March/April 2020

Going forward, our best leaders will eschew political gamesmanship and work to control our borders, fix our public health agencies, and end our dependence on China and other foreign countries for goods that are essential to our national health and security. We must prepare ourselves to face the next pandemic without surrendering our way of life.

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The Urgent Need for a United States Space Force

Steven L. Kwast | January 2020

The reason for a space force is simple: space is the strategic high ground from which all future wars will be fought. If we do not master space, our nation will become indefensible.

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Why and How the U.S. Should Stop Financing China’s Bad Actors

Roger W. Robinson, Jr. | October 2019

A company’s stock will likely decline when it becomes known that the company is providing surveillance cameras for concentration camps or producing ICBMs targeting American cities. You would think that demanding this kind of disclosure would be unobjectionable—but then why is it so hard? Is it because China would be offended?

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Does Diversity Really Unite Us? Citizenship and Immigration

Edward J. Erler | July/August 2018

Historically, constitutional government has been found only in the nation-state, where the people share a common good and are dedicated to the same principles and purposes.

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How to Meet the Strategic Challenge Posed by China

David P. Goldman | March 2018

China’s share of high tech exports has risen from about five percent in 1999 to about 25 percent at present. America’s has plummeted from about 20 percent to about seven percent. What this means in practical terms is that America can’t build a military aircraft without Chinese chips.

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How to Think About Vladimir Putin

Christopher Caldwell | March 2017

Our globalist leaders may have deprecated sovereignty since the end of the Cold War, but that does not mean it has ceased for an instant to be the primary subject of politics.

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