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Empire Imagined: The Personality of American Power
Giselle Donnelly BUY TODAY The origins of the United States’ distinct approach to war and military power are found in the colonial experience. To imagine our future, Giselle Donnelly argues that we must plumb our past. Long before 1776 and 1619, English men and women crossed the Atlantic not to isolate themselves from the Old World but to empower themselves to defend their faith, countrymen, and political liberty while creating new wealth. They inhabited a world of empires and understood that to survive in it—and to hold together the diverse peoples of Britain—they must play the global game. In Empire Imagined: The Personality of American Power, Giselle Donnelly traces the development of these enduring habits through a series of vignettes that reveal the interaction of a maturing strategic consensus and the contingencies inevitable in international politics and offers a unique perspective for understanding the current debate about America’s role in the world. LEARN MORE 
Refighting The Vietnam War
by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness Triumph Regained shows that America’s war in Vietnam could have been won earlier at far less cost, and in fact almost was, even belatedly by 1968.  Europe’s Nuclear Discontent Euromissiles is a timely and relevant account of the value of diplomacy and of arms control negotiation during the last decade of the Cold War. READ MORE › In the despotic impulses of Israel's judiciary, we see echoes of Rousseau's Lawgiver and Plato's Philosopher King. READ MORE › The Last Great President William Inboden gives Ronald Reagan’s successful foreign policy the detailed history it deserves. On the Need to Touch Grass
What happens when an entire generation loses itself in a world of abstractions? 
Not Accountable revives the constitutional objections to “collective bargaining” by public servants. Will Americans listen this time? READ MORE ›  Edward Chancellor has given us a colorful and provocative review of the history, theory, and the profound effects of interest rates. READ MORE ›  
The Sultan's Fleet: Seafarers of the Ottoman Empire https://www.meforum.org/63867/the-sultan-fleet-seafarers-of-the-ottoman-empire 
A new book explores the complexities of one of the architects of American foreign policy. READ MORE ›    It May Be Different Than You Think
citing Philip Zelikow via Texas National Security ReviewI recently participated in a historical simulation run by the historian Philip Zelikow. Zelikow brilliantly applies micro-history methods of key historical events to highlight, ex ante, the difficult choices faced by policymakers.  The Life of an Unrepentant Old Whig Hayek's deep curiosity about the world was matched by considerable courage and intellectual integrity. READ MORE ›   In a debased modern society, Thomas Pfau finds hope in the transformative beauty of the world. READ MORE › The portrayal of widespread poverty and economic inequality is a distortion of statistics by economists inside and outside the government.
READ MORE ›  James Lacey capably explains Roman military strategy, but fails to grasp the motivations of Imperial Rome. READ MORE ›  
Berlin’s Dark, Enduring Heart
A new book offers an engaging, if ultimately unfulfilling, historical portrait of the city.
BRIAN ALLEN
A Serious Critic for Unserious Times Hilton Kramer rejected political correctness to champion aesthetics and standards in art
A Neo-Aristotelian Basis for Liberty and Virtue
by douglas b. rasmussen Neo-Aristotelian insights may play a crucial role in preserving the liberal order. READ MORE ›
Embracing Seriousness About War and Peace
A symposium on the late Angelo Codevilla's final book, America's Rise and Fall among Nations READ MORE ›
The Progressive Revolution in American Foreign Policy
The Progressives rejected the purpose of government as understood by the American founders. READ MORE ›
What Is Our Peace?
Codevilla counseled Americans to think coherently about their interests and the means to secure peace. READ MORE ›
Recovering a Constrained Foreign Policy
We need elites who operate with an eye to the public welfare, not progressive ideology. READ MORE ›
Against the Elites
The achievements of the American empire have not inspired confidence in Progress. READ MORE ›
U.S., CHINA:
U.S. Trails China in Key Tech Areas, New Report Warns By Lauren C. Williams & Patrick Tucker, Defense One: ““In our judgment, China leads the United States in 5G, commercial drones, offensive hypersonic weapons, and lithium-battery production.”"
Barry Strauss On The John Batchelor Show (1/8)
interview with Barry Strauss via The John Batchelor Show(Part 1) Hoover Institution fellow Barry Strauss discusses the war that made the Roman Empire. Listen to: Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, and Part 8.
The Marital Foundations of the Republic
A new book argues that America's Founders viewed domestic life as the equal partner to public life. READ MORE ›
Strategic Outpost’s Seventh Annual Summer Vacation Reading List, by David Barno and Nora Bensahel
Counting Liberalisms
The liberal/postliberal dualism is too simplistic, requiring that we see disagreement where there may in fact be none. READ MORE ›
God and the Ghosts of Communism
by thomas albert howard Nowhere was the Marxist-Leninist dogma on religion pursued more ruthlessly than in Albania. READ MORE ›  Kropotkin’s dead goose by Gary Saul MorsonOn the limitations of anarchist thought. “A classic moral fable” by Steve Morris. On rereading Hard Times by Charles Dickens. “The short happy life of Robert Louis Stevenson,” by Joseph Epstein. On Robert Louis Stevenson’s life and legacy. “Soviet fate, Russian hope,” by Jacob Howland (March 2018). On Nadezhda Mandelstam’s literary achievements. Death fugues: the poems of Paul Celan by John SimonOn Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew by John Felstiner. How and why do societies fall apart, without any external compulsion to do so? These are questions that, having spent a great deal of my life in Britain, preoccupy me. It might be denied, of course, that societies ever . . . more Seeing Turner whole by David Yezzi The “I” of the storm by David FromkinOn The World Crisis by Winston Churchill. The voice of sanity by Stanislaw Baranczak A review of Open Letters: Selected Writings by Václav Havel. The West that wasn’t by Andrew RobertsOn a world without Western civilization. Henry James & the Great War by Stephen Miller On the author’s final years in England. Kropotkin’s dead goose by Gary Saul MorsonOn the limitations of anarchist thought.
How the New Continuing Resolution Will Frustrate the Pentagon
By Joe Gould, Megan Eckstein & Jen Judson, Defense News: "Exceptions can be made for “anomalies.” But for now, the continuing resolution means a Pentagon priority — a $5.5 billion boost for the development and testing of cutting-edge technologies that could deter China — is on hold." How Control of the World’s Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers By Catherine Putz, The Diplomat: “The oceans are a central zone for commercial competition, scientific collaboration, and naval rivalry. Sea-based trade is not just an element of globalization; it’s the core of it.”
The Nuclear Balance Is Changing—And Not for the Better
By Peter Huessy, The National Interest: “As the nuclear posture review begins, the United States faces serious dilemmas." China Military Watch By Reginald Lin & Eli Huang, The Strategist (ASPI): “The careful selection by Chinese leader Xi Jinping of military officers for rapid promotion to key positions in the People’s Liberation Army may signal both a wish to consolidate the military behind him and a concern about emerging security challenges in China’s far western regions.” 
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