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The Call: Our 2024 Political Risk Predictions

Why Ernest Hemingway Matters: The Old Man and the Sea

You cannot defend democracy by destroying democracy

The risk in the Gaza War is not World War III, it is in thinking it amounts to World War III, by Dr. John C. Hulsman

Why Ernest Hemingway Matters: For Whom the Bell Tolls

The bleak truth is that Iran has already accomplished its strategic goals in the Gaza War

The EU's elite is living on borrowed time

Why Ernest Hemingway matters: The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Wishcasting: Why Ukraine's cheerleaders got the counter-offensive so wrong

Why Ernest Hemingway Matters: A Farewell to Arms

Realism and the passing of Henry Kissinger

Amidst all the global brushfires, the US must keep its eye squarely on the Taiwan Strait

Why populism is winning

Shock Dutch election results confirm the global populist revolt is alive and well

El Loco and the libertarian revolution in Argentina

Why Ernest Hemingway Matters: Fiesta

Why Nikki Haley is the fool's gold of this election cycle

Appointing David Cameron Foreign Secretary is like giving an arsonist a match

A sneak preview of The Last Best Hope: The Complete Introduction

Thoughts from Saturday's Palestinian Rally in Washington, by J.L. Reiter

We told you so: Biden's poll numbers in battleground states tank pushing Democrats into full panic mode

Where we are: The world at the beginning of November 2023

Two further points about the Israeli-Hamas war

Four points to make about the Israeli-Hamas War

Avoiding World War I in the Middle East

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: President Biden's shopworn evocation of World War III is a dangerous illusion

Niall Ferguson's dangerous neocon musings about World War III must be avoided at all costs

The fatal flaw of the Obama-Biden Mideast policy (Iran) becomes tragically clear

A Hamas-Israeli War update

The crisis in Israel at last makes the real Ukraine 'link' clear; it is past time for the US to make realist choices

What was I thinking? Chapter 5: Fighting when it is necessary; FDR saves the US from the Nazi peril (part 3)

What was I thinking? Chapter 5: Fighting when it is necessary; FDR saves the US from the Nazi peril (Part 2)

RFK Jr. is just about to decisively upend the 2024 presidential race

The Problem for the Democrats is that we have already reached 'peak Biden'

What was I thinking? Chapter 5: Fighting when it is necessary; FDR saves the US from the Nazi peril (Part 1)

Why Raymond Chandler matters: The Long Goodbye

What was I thinking? Chapter 4: Senator William Borah reminds us that sovereignty is real and everything

Changing our Substack rules for our community

What was I Thinking? The Last Best Hope: Chapter 3--'Never do what your enemy wants you to do;' William H. Seward navigates the Tent affair and saves the Union

Why Raymond Chandler Matters: The Little Sister

What Was I Thinking?: The Last Best Hope; Chapter 2--John Quincy Adams and 'No More Stupid Wars'

Why Raymond Chandler Matters: Farewell My Lovely

What was I thinking? The Last Best Hope; Chapter 1--"Alliances should only be entered into when they advance specific American interests"

Why Raymond Chandler Matters: The Big Sleep

What was I thinking?: The Last Best Hope; Introduction

The Last Best Hope: A History of American Realism--Available for pre-order!

We must not let Ukraine become the next Forever War, by Dr. John C. Hulsman

Epilogue (Ezzy's Education: Part 41), by Garrett Murch

Biden's putative Middle East deal is a very bad idea

Improving (Ezzy's Education: Part 40), by Garrett Murch

Why the botched Hunter Biden plea agreement is important

The Candidate (Continued), (Ezzy's Education: Part 39), by Garrett Murch

Midsomer Malaise: Ukraine, US, Europe

The candidate (Ezzy's Education: Part 38), by Garrett Murch

Holy Cow (Ezzy's Education: Part 37), by Garrett Murch

It is Zelensky who is being absurd about Ukraine's alliance membership, not NATO

The world from the regional powers' eyes

Speech (Ezzy's Education, Part 36), by Garrett Murch

The world through Russia's eyes

Eye of the Beholder (Ezzy's Education: Part 35), by Garrett Murch

The world through the EU's eyes

Capitalising (Ezzy's Education, Part 34), by Garrett Murch

The world through India's eyes

Revenge (Ezzy's Education: Part 33), by Garrett Murch

The Last Best Hope: A History of American Realism

Reactions (Ezzy's Education: Part 32), by Garrett Murch

The world through the Anglosphere's eyes

Guilt (Ezzy's Education: Part 31), by Garrett Murch

The world through Japan's eyes

All Hail (Continued), (Ezzy's Education: Part 31), By Garrett Murch

The world from America's eyes

All Hail (Ezzy's Education: Part 30), by Garrett Murch

The world from China's eyes

Trust (Continued) (Ezzy's Education: Part 29), By Garrett Murch

Joe Biden's family corruption (and its cover-up) is hidden in plain sight

Trust (Ezzy's Education: Part 28) By Garrett Murch

The Kennedy Rule Still Applies: The West needs to wake up to the reality that the developing world is not with it

The foreign policy blob must learn to understand the reality of America's limits if the country is remain pre-eminent

Who is worse (continued)? (Ezzy's Education: Part 27), by Garrett Murch

Explaining reality to the French

Who is worse? (Ezzy's Education: Part 26), by Garrett Murch

Russia and Saudi Arabia are winning the energy war, as a clueless Biden administration fails to understand multipolarity

Mission (Ezzy's Education: Part 25), by Garrett Murch

This time it's different: Why Trump's indictment will come to finish him

Release (Continued), (Ezzy's Education: Part 24), By Garrett Murch

As both Covid and Ukraine show, we need more open debate, not less

Yes, Stanford, the Free Speech Juice is Worth the Squeeze, By J.L. Reiter

Release (Ezzy's Education: Part 23), by Garrett Murch

The Beast of Inflation is claiming its banking victims

Was Charles Manson Right? By J.L. Reiter

Leadership (Ezzy's Education: Part 22), By Garrett Murch

A Republic If You Can Keep It: Jeffersonian Accountability and the Elite's Failure Over the Origins of Covid

Ezzy's Huddle (Ezzy's Education: Part 21), by Garrett Murch

The global geo-strategic state of play, a year into the Ukraine War

Exceptions (Continued), (Ezzy's Education: Part 20), by Garrett Murch

The hidden realities of Ukraine, one year on

Where will China go the next century? By Publius

My political risk jazz riff for the day: The three opportunities that could transform our world

Exceptions (Ezzy's Education: Part 19), by Garrett Murch

What a state (of the Union) we're in, by J.L. Reiter

My political risk jazz riff for the day: The three risks that could upend our world

Practice (Continued), (Ezzy's Education, Part 18), By Garrett Murch

Why Republican patience with Ukraine is wearing thin

Practice (Ezzy's Education: Part 17), by Garrett Murch

The monsters lying beneath the waves in political risk today (Russia, China, the US)

All in good time (Ezzy's Education: Part 16), By Garrett Murch

What's really going on in Ukraine

Expectations (Ezzy's Education Part 15), By Garrett Murch

History's law of unintended consequences rears its head in Brazil and the Indo-Pacific

The plot against Simba (Ezzy's Education: Part 14), By Garrett Murch

Why Trump will not be the GOP nominee in 2024