What do elocution, spices, Shakespeare, baseball, and Social Security reform have in common?

The American Interest is pleased to team up with our friend and TAI contributing editor David J. Kramer. TAI will co-sponsor the State of the World 2020 Conference in January in Miami, Florida.

In the culture of pervasive outrage, everything is an outrage, so nothing is.

Putin and his regime are thugs and kleptocrats. Only they can bring peace to Ukraine—not comfortable dilettantes at diplomatic summits.

“Graft and corruption are bad” is an effective, uncontroversial slogan that cuts across ideological divides. It commands support in both center-left and center-right circles—especially in the United States.

The impeachment process has judicial features, but it is not an impartial court proceeding. Indeed, the “jurors” are politicians.

Unlike their predecessors, today’s authoritarians lack a common ideology. But once in power, they behave in remarkably similar ways.

Calvin Coolidge once said, “The business of America is business.” The same is true of Singapore, perhaps even more so than America.

TAI is pleased to announce its co-sponsorship of the Zero Corruption Conference—a major international forum to be held in Ukraine in April 2020.

Why do Europeans resent America, even as they continue to copy it? Never mind Donald Trump. The United States is the steamroller of modernity that invents stuff, ideas, and images the world cannot resist.