The republic begins its 250th year, however, with its economy reliant on foreign-flagged ships, and its commercial fleet rusted and in need of repair. Should a global conflict erupt, this fleet would be unable to support our warfighters. This deterioration is proportional to the rise of China’s fleet, now the world’s largest. The decline of American shipbuilding is a crisis and a grave danger to our economic and national security.
Read MoreThe foreign policy establishment pushback against the Trump administration’s attack on TdA narcoterrorists repudiates the model of the past thirty years in favor of using force against manifest and tangible, albeit diffuse threats to the United States, rather than in pursuit of an altruistic vision of global human rights.
Read MoreThe Trump administration has been clear-eyed about the shift from a unipolar, hegemonic American-led global order to a multipolar one in which the United States will be, though still the strongest, one of many poles. In recognition of this strategic reality, the administration has affected dramatic changes in domestic and foreign policy: its efforts at reform have encompassed world trade, military preparedness, relations with allies and adversaries, and internal governance. Untouched thus far in this raft of policy rewrites, however, has been America’s approach to great power nuclear negotiations…
Read MoreIn Ancient Greek, the term phármăkon (φάρμακον) has a variety of meanings, some of them contradictory. In its most basic definition, the phármăkon is a drug that can either be curative or poisonous. Another definition, which folds these two meanings into one, is the phármăkon as a charm or spell, an object that captures the…
Read MoreNot long after President Donald Trump announced “Liberation Day” on April 2, 2025, reactions at home and abroad ranged from protracted stock market volatility to suspense and speculation about megadeals to come. But one thing was clear: this administration was going to wield tariffs forcefully and frequently on the rest of the world at a…
Read More“Face blindness,” or prosopagnosia, is a condition in which a person cannot recognize human faces, at times not even their own face in a mirror. Something similar afflicted most of American academia and journalism for almost two generations during which the absolute centrality of the state to the performance of capitalism became almost impossible to see. Call this “state aphasia” or “state blindness”…
Read MoreThe long 1990s, marked by the optimism of Pax Americana, reinforced belief in extended deterrence. No one expected that we would once again be discussing nuclear weapons outside the context of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). As a result, several generations of politicians were spared serious reflection on the matter. Considering the near total absence of…
Read MoreEarly liberalism’s exclusion of nonwhite people can be seen as the result of the abstractions that dominated Enlightenment thinking when the European mind was detached from its religious roots. In order to create a fictional world of interchangeable, “colorblind” individuals, liberalism first had to politically and philosophically erase those whose very existence was a testament to the unchosen and particular realities of human life. The rights were kept for “white people” because “white” functioned as the signifier for the “abstract individual” that the liberal imagination had invented.
Read MoreIn San Francisco, there has been a revolt of the political center. Its leaders have emerged not from the world of professional activists, but from regular San Franciscans: parents of kids stuck in virtual learning, Asian families afraid for the lives of their elderly relatives, and people sick of walking through gauntlets of meth smokers. Their anger has led to a sea change in how the city practices law enforcement, leading to a historic drop in property crime rates. But it has yet to make an appreciable impact on the biggest problem the city faces: the open-air drug market…
Read MoreAs we pass peak globalization and find ourselves in the midst of new proxy wars such as that in Ukraine, the ongoing restructuring of global order necessitates that we reframe a new concept of the national interest. The phrase is conspicuous by its muted appearance and sometimes even total absence from contemporary political discussion across the West. The proposition I want to advance here is that the reemergence of the national interest is less about shifts in the global balance of power and first and foremost a matter of internal democratic politics…
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