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What Comes After Trump’s ‘Surgical Strikes’?
As Kissinger often said, every success in foreign policy is just an admission ticket to the next crisis.
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Israel Has Done Most of the Job. Only Trump Can Finish It.
Only one air force has the power to finish off Iran’s last standing nuclear enrichment site.
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General Yoav Gallant
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The Cloister and the Starship
The university of the future must revive ancient ways of learning to enable human mastery of artificial intelligence
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Israel’s Attack Restores the Credibility of the West
A blow for the good guys in Cold War II. Co-authored with Harry Halem and Marcus Solarz Hendriks.
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Harry Halem
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Reviving Britain will require our version of the chainsaw act
Reform in the style of Argentina’s Javier Milei is what is needed to set the UK on the right track — Nigel Farage’s ideas would return us to the 1970s
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Trump’s Foreign Policy? Reality TV Politik
Making peace is harder than buying skyscrapers. The president is learning this the painful way in the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
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May 2025

America Is In A Late Republic Stage Like Rome
History suggests republics don’t last more than 250 years. An interview with Nathan Gardels, recorded on February 10.
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Exposing Harvard's Rot
Why UATX is the Anti-Harvard
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Harvard, you’ve got a problem — but Donald Trump’s war will backfire
Antisemitism and political intolerance on campus needed to be confronted. But assaulting academia rarely works — ask James II — and the president’s…
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April 2025

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