Peace Building Named for Trump!

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. File this under “You can’t make this stuff up”: The Trump administration has rebranded the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) as the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, complete with the president’s name installed...

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A Thought Experiment for Pro-War Liberals

Reprinted from The Realist Review: With the war in Ukraine back at the top of the fold (for now), I was thinking about how it all began and why so few of the good and right thinking liberals here in Washington--with their yellow and blue flags plastered on their cars...

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John Mearsheimer: ‘Me and Jeffrey Epstein’

Reprinted from John's Substack: On 1 December 2025, I was on The Spectator’s “Americano” podcast with Freddy Gray. We talked about where the Ukraine war is headed and about the recent release of email correspondence between Alan Dershowitz and Jeffrey Epstein that...

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Matthew Hoh on The Donroe Doctrine

I don’t know who came up with The Donroe Doctrine, but I am grateful for that bit of glibness. Any day now, we seem on the verge of something in Venezuela that may very well savage and ruin the lives of 30 million Venezuelans. The likelihood of that spreading to...

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