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Sticks and Stones
The Right Nightmare

The war of words between Trump and Kim Jong-un isn’t the nightmare that should keep you up at night.

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The Middle East
With Friends Like These

The Qatar imbroglio and the second coming of the friendly tyrants dilemma.

We’re Not Going to Take It
An Open Letter to Chuck Grassley

Please, Senator Grassley, do something about the unconstitutional abomination known as civil asset forfeiture.

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Peter Berger, RIP

Remembering the man: scholar, husband, parent, colleague, and friend.

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Mean World
Alexandria and the Rise of Political Violence

What’s really behind the rising tide of political violence in America?

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A Lot of Hot Air
Leaving Paris in the Springtime

Trump’s Paris agreement pullout isn’t the calamity the global warming chorus has made it out to be, but it does point to a big missed opportunity for the United States.

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The Middle East
The Six Day and Fifty Years War

The war itself was quick and militarily decisive, but the political aftermath has been anything but.

An Ornery American
Freeing My Inner Curmudgeon

Because it’s just not worth holding it back anymore.

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States Under Stress
Piracy on the Cyber Seas

How the disintermediation and hyperconnectivity afforded by the cyber revolution threaten the order of the commons, and thus the Westphalian state system itself.

Political Religion
The Trump Cult?

Is the movement that elected Donald Trump President of the United States a cult?

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