Communism

Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Xi

The Chinese Communist Party is rewriting the Bible.  As part of Xi Jinping’s “Sinicization of Christianity” campaign, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) plans to ensure Christianity in...

Iran’s rulers are true believers  

That’s why they’re so difficult to deter or constrain

America Should Rediscover the Soft Power Potential of Its Music

What made jazz – the quintessential American music – dangerous was not the sound, but the idea behind it: improvisation, spontaneity, individual voice.

Trump Must Hold The Line On The Cuba Oil Embargo

No activists, no influencers, no negotiation.

Strait talk 

American victory passes through Hormuz

Regime Change Without Nation Building

America and Israel are at war with Iran, a fact that should be neither shocking nor surprising. Both countries have been targeted by the Islamic Republic since its inception in 1979. Both countries...

China Critic Jimmy Lai Handed 20-Year Prison Sentence by Hong Kong Court

A Hong Kong court sentenced Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison on February 9 after the 78-year-old former media mogul and pro-democracy activist was convicted

The battered Western alliance    

Repairing it is essential if we’re to win the current cold war

Winning the AI Arms Race Against the Chinese Communist Party

Maduro’s last exit is to Brooklyn

But his henchmen remain in power in Caracas

Russia Recruits Young Migrant Women from Latin America to Build Iranian Drones

Eight Things to Know About Christians in China

The latest wave of religious repression in China represents the most aggressive internal clampdowns in years. Catholic bishops appointed by the Vatican have been disappeared, despite a deal allegedly giving...

All about Trump’s revised National Security Strategy

The good, the bad, and the conspicuously absent

Meet the Muslim Brotherhood

Working to reestablish the caliphate for almost a century

Is Trump Getting Played by Xi?

If so, America’s agrarian past may be its future.

America needs energy dominance

We’re in an arms race and there can be only one winner

Letter to the POTUS

Careful, Sir, Putin wants to out-negotiate you like Stalin out-negotiated Roosevelt  

Covert Action Cover to Cover

REVIEW: ‘The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature’ by Charlie English

Freedom for Iran: Learning From U.S. Support for Polish Anti-Communists in the 1980s

China Is Winning the AI Race With America’s Own Manhattan Project Lessons

China is applying the real lessons of the Manhattan Project to AI—talent and steady research funding—while America risks forgetting its own blueprint.