It seems safe to say that just about the entire western world is sick and tired of hearing about Milo Yiannopoulos. The alt-right provocateur has…
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Author: Jack Stukel
Trumped: The Rise, Reign, and Fall of Conservatism in America
‘Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them.’ The words of William F. Buckley Jr., the intellectual…
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‘Miracle, Mystery, and Authority:’ Dr. Stephen Blank on Putin’s Russia
Dr. Stephen Blank is a Senior Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council, a Washington D.C. think tank whose stated mission is ‘bringing information to…
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Baseball and Brutality: Obama Visits Cuba
When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, the era of totalitarian communism seemed to be at an end. Within two years, the Soviet Union,…
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A Bridge Too Far? The Pope and the Patriarch in Cuba
There are only a handful of global institutions that deal with their history in terms of millennia and two of these celebrated a remarkable first…
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A Black Banner Year: ISIS’ 2015 Rise to Global Power
New York City’s Times Square on the night of 31 December, 2015 was, as it is every year, a predictable extravaganza of drunken revelry and…
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The Illiberal Art: Erdogan’s Recipe for Electoral Success
To the world of pundits and experts, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s political career was dead in the water. The ousting of his Justice and…
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Election 2016: Understanding the Foreign Policy of America’s Long, National Nightmare
For many unfamiliar with the American election process, the current Presidential primary campaigns for both the Republican and Democratic parties can appear confusing and occasionally…
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The New Popes
The role of the Pope is undoubtedly unique in world politics. No world leader can claim the same blend of political and spiritual leadership, nor…
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Reverting to Form: The End of Europe and the World’s Brief Hiatus from Anti-Semitism
It has been seven decades since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, seven decades of a kind of hatred rehab. Europe has been trying…
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A Changed World – 2012 Foreign Policy Predictions and Outcomes
A Changed World A look back at three major foreign policy claims of the 2012 US Presidential Election and forward to the road ahead, providing…
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The Changing Face of Jihad
Since 2001, the common Western understanding of radical Islamic terrorism has revolved almost exclusively around the Middle East. The idea of violent jihadism automatically conjures…
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