Once again the United States is at war in the Middle East. This time it is a war initiated by a President who criticized his predecessors for having engaged in “endless” foreign wars and who campaigned on the promise that as President he would keep the United States...
A recent article by Stacie Goddard and Abraham Newman, Further Back to the Future, deserves to be better known and is a good road toward defining Trumpism. To capture what makes this regime distinctive rather than merely bad in familiar ways, one must move beyond...
Let’s examine the recent United States military strike on Venezuela not only as a spectacle, but as a test case. What happened in Caracas in early January was not simply the removal of Nicolás Maduro. It was a demonstration, to Cuba and the world, of how quickly...
It’s hard to find the exact right word—le mot juste—that best describes the Trump regime. Words like “fascist,” “illiberal,” “personalist dictatorship,” and “authoritarian” are often used, but none seems completely satisfactory. Imagine my pleasure, then, when I...
The New Year has begun, and it was only three days into the new year that the Venezuelan head of state and his wife were kidnapped for the expressed purpose of grabbing Venezuela’s oil. When asked by the New York Times whether there was anything that could stop him...
