Last week, I wrote about the following global trends that will be shaping our world in the coming decade; each are listed below, with links to the longer, more detailed predictions.Interesting Times: All of these global trends will be fueled by, and responding to, the unprecedented rate of technological change. The acceleration of advancement that […]

The global warming movement as we have known it is dead.  Its health had been in steady decline during the last year as the once robust hopes for a strong and legally binding treaty to be agreed upon at the Copenhagen Summit faded away.  By the time that summit opened, campaigners were reduced to hoping […]

Some thoughts on yesterday’s discussion of Livy, Zinn and the relationship of morality and power in human history.  The author is Jones Very, a minor but interesting nineteenth-century American poet and commentator.  The poem is taken from his collect of sonnets on Reconstruction; it was written in 1868.

Two things have me thinking about morality and historians this week.  First, I’ve been re-reading Livy’s Early History of Rome to prepare for this Monday’s class in Grand Strategy.  Second, Howard Zinn (author of A People’s History of the United States) died this week.  Livy and Zinn were both wildly popular historians, both wrote about […]

…or at least order in, because I’ll be (briefly) on Special Report with Bret Baier tonight, at 6 PM EST, to discuss Obama’s foreign policy challenges, stemming from my recent article in Foreign Policy on Obama’s dueling Jeffersonian and Wilsonian impulses.

This morning I was having my morning coffee in the Impressionist Wing of the stately Mead manor in glamorous Queens, and noticed that the butler had folded the restfully pink pages of the FT over to the latest story on the health care debacle now unwinding in Washington.“Any particular reason you want me to see […]

Here in the quiet precincts of the stately Mead manor in exclusive Queens, as the dew gently falls over the mist-shrouded lawns and the pigeons coo soothingly from the historic-landmarked eaves, it is sometimes hard to believe, but out there in the workaday world the long and graceful decay of the American social model is […]

The Great Meltdown continues; the London Times reports that British government official responsible for monitoring compliance with UK freedom of information law has found that the ‘climategate‘ scientists at East Anglia University violated the law.  Although neither the scientists nor the university can be prosecuted because the revelations about their behavior came after the time […]

John Tierney, science reporter at the New York Times, is one of the better reporters out there; in the past he’s attracted the wrath of the climate change true believers.  And he makes a lot of good points in his piece in today’s paper as he defends both IPCC head Rajendra Pachauri and Al Gore […]

Like a new car once it’s spent a few weeks ferrying the kids to school and soccer practice, 2010 no longer feels like such a fresh and shiny new year.  Our new year’s resolutions aren’t surviving that much better than the ones for 2009 or 2008 did, for that matter, and the holiday season feels […]