Interventionism

May 22, 2019|Growth, inequality, Interventionism, Paul Collier, Poverty

Paul Collier and the False Promise of “Centrism”

The New York Stock Exchange (Matej Kastelic/Shutterstock.com).

We need to recognize that the first step—rather than further government "medicine"—is to stop poisoning the patient, and return to capitalism.

January 23, 2018|American Foreign Policy, containment, Eliot Cohen, Hard Power, Interventionism, Soft Power, Theodore Roosevelt

Overusing The Big Stick

by William Anthony Hay|

Eliot Cohen presents a world full of threats, but not all of them are best addressed with military power.

July 15, 2014|Foreign Policy, Interventionism, Isolationism, John McCain, Rand Paul, Rick Perry

The Band Perry-Rand’s Featherweight Foreign Policy Debate

by Greg Weiner|

John McCain has pronounced on the Paul-Perry-Paul war of foreign-policy op-eds that are available here, here, and here, so let us review the bidding. To believe there are things that exceed U.S. control is to accede to an “absence of American leadership” to which all global ills are traceable. To believe other things, controllable or not, fall outside of U.S. interests is to advocate “a withdrawal to a fortress America” such as preceded World War I. Say what one will about Senator McCain, he knows how to spice up a Sunday show with stark simplicities.

A Mirror of the 20th-Century Congress

by Joseph Postell

Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.

The Graces of Flannery O'Connor

by Henry T. Edmondson III

O'Connor's correspondence is a goldmine of piercing insight and startling reflections on everything from literature to philosophy to raising peacocks.

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