Why Compare the Present to the Past?
In the aftermath of the Cold War, several prominent thinkers focused their minds on the shape of the world to come. Francis Fukuyama’s “The End of History?” (1989), Samuel Huntington’s ...
Tag: Cold War
The End of Modernity
This year, Europe celebrated the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the beginning of what came next. The declaration of Austrian independence on April 27, 1945, ...
The Seabed Is Now a Battlefield
The rules-based global order is under siege at sea. For most of the past century, U.S. naval superiority has bolstered the cooperative maritime security framework needed to build a prosperous ...
Putin Is a Gambler, not a Grand Master
After centuries of trying to catch up with the West, Russia is now using its influence to reshape the politics of Western countries and erode their foundational commitment to the ...
East Berlin’s Last Punks Are Moving West
BERLIN—The energy of the three-day Fem Punk festival at KvU, eastern Berlin’s oldest punk club, was conspicuously upbeat, despite the circumstances. The beloved haunt of three generations of Berlin anarcho-outsiders ...
Containment Can’t Win the U.S-China Tech Race Alone
As U.S.-China tech competition heats up, Washington is slowly recognizing that gaining a first-mover advantage in critical technologies may be more vital than protecting its existing edges. At present, the ...
A Grand Bargain With Russia Would Be a Disaster
Throughout the 1980s, and into the early 1990s, the New York real estate developer Donald Trump exchanged fan letters with disgraced ex-president Richard Nixon. In 1982, not quite eight years after Nixon’s ...
Jonas Jonasson Lifts The Lid On Disney+ Original ‘Whiskey On The Rocks’; Ronald Reagan & Leonid Brezhnev Face Off In Swedish Cold-War Submarine Satire
EXCLUSIVE: When Whiskey-class Soviet submarine U137 ran aground in Sweden in 1981 it sparked a diplomatic fracas that threatened to ignite a global conflict. With nukes possibly in play, it ...
China’s Top Drone Maker Removes Security Features at a Very Weird Time
As the FBI and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was scrambling to find the pilot whose DJI drone illegally collided with an aircraft battling the devastating Los Angeles fires, ...
Exclusive — Marco Rubio to Shred Globalists in Confirmation Hearing: ‘Liberal World Order’ Not Just a ‘Fantasy,’ But ‘Dangerous Delusion’
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as the next Secretary of State, will take the globalist foreign policy establishment to task in his opening statement at ...
