Is America Facing a ‘Cultural Revolution’?
Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump defiled one of the oldest and most sacrosanct pillars of the American project. In an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press, he said that ...
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Desperate Kansas man arrested for stealing 800-pound cannon from Spanish American War to settle drug debt
This crook cannon even pull off a worthwhile theft. A low-level drug dealer stole an 800-pound cannon that was used in the Spanish American War from a Kansas park last ...
Europe Is Reliving Its ‘Great Illusion’
“The great nations of Europe do not destroy the trade of the small nations for their own benefit, because they cannot; and the Dutch citizen, whose Government possesses no military ...
How Ancient Rome Blew Up Its Own Business Empire
The second Trump administration has embarked on a set of broadly anti-trade tariff policies that are threatening the foundations of Pax Americana, the post-World War II global order that ensured ...
The Novels We’re Reading in May
This month, we’re immersing ourselves in novels that explore the personal and societal costs of ambition in two of the globe’s economic powerhouses: the Gulf and Singapore. Gulf: A Novel ...
The Haunting Legacy of the Vietnam War
Fifty years ago on Wednesday, North Vietnamese forces took Saigon’s presidential palace, marking the end of the Vietnam War—a two-decade-long conflict that shaped the second half of the 20th century. ...
Take a look inside a 45-room, 14,000-square-foot historic mansion once owned by the inventor of Morse code
Locust Grove's drawing room.Talia Lakritz/Business InsiderWhen Samuel F. B. Morse wasn't creating Morse code, inventing the telegraph, or painting portraits, he was relaxing on the grounds of his Locust Grove ...
100 Days of Tearing Down Institutions—and Opponents
This time around, U.S. President Donald Trump’s first 100 days have been the polar opposite of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s in 1933. Whereas Roosevelt responded to the economic crisis that ...
What the Stoic Philosophers Can Teach Today’s Policymakers
The first months of President Donald Trump’s return to the White House have been disorienting. Talk of making Canada the 51st U.S. state and acquiring Panama and Greenland by force ...
How Generations of Experts Built U.S. Power
The Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz famously wrote that war is a “mere continuation of policy by other means,” but he did not mean that war is merely politics. ...
