Is China a geopolitical titan or a financial house of cards?
August 8, 2026
AMERICA UNBOUND
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Letter from an American attorney
ABOUT GOLFING WITH DONALD TRUMP
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO ELON MUSK
The Economist interview with the world’s most remarkable man
Playing golf with Donald Trump
July 20, 2026
A Nation Hungry for Connection
There Is Hope
What’s there not to love?
June 27, 2026
An Indian-American looks at America at 250
June 6, 2026
American soft power against China is a dangerous delusion
29th May 20
Don’t Worry, Be Smug About China Because The Future Is American
After President Donald Trump’s friendly and deferential visit with China’s Xi Jinping, Matthew Hennessey, a Wall Street Journal editor, wrote a column alerting us about the false “Red Scare.” The argument, stripped to its bones, was this: America is great, China ain’t, and you should stop worrying. Hennessey’s article, confident and sharply written, is a near-perfect specimen of American…
Institutions incentivise silence and the powerful benefit
Conspiracy or censorship isn't the problem
US-China AI Race IS ON
Small Yards, High Fences, and the Open-Source Challenge
Trump’s delusion of omnipotence
April 23, 2026
A golfer’s spring manifesto
Phil Mickelson hits onto the fourth green during a golf match against Tiger Woods at Shadow Creek golf course, Friday, Nov.
New York Airport To Middle East Killing Fields
THE FLIGHT PATH OF AI
What good is the right to know?
March 24, 2026
INDIA TODAY AND TOMORROW
India, America, and the Shaping of the Modern World
Imagining the ‘what after Trump’ road to the White House
After his speech at the Concord City Auditorium, Pete Buttigieg greets Chris Masure, who referred to him as “President Pete,” on Saturday, Feb.
India's freedom from global blocs is the future
The case for autonomy in a fractured world
AMERICAN DIPLOMACY AT THE END OF A BARREL
In mid-January, presidential historian Richard Norton Smith, during his visit to the Rockefeller Center, offered a simple but profound conservative standard for the office of the president.
The Upper Valley paradox in 2026
January 13 2026