22 October 2025 Published on Substack —— While there’s much to cheer in the second Trump presidency’s foreign policy, such as the bombing of Iran’s nuclear faculties and the freeing of the Israeli hostages, there’s one especially puzzling anomaly from an administration otherwise pledged to winning the new Cold War with China. Why would a…
07 October 2025 Published on Substack —— When Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher came into office, the Western world was at a low ebb. The 1973 oil crisis had created stagflation. The US had comprehensively lost the Vietnam War. There was a pervasive sense of malaise, embodied in the high-minded but ineffectual presidency of Jimmy…
