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Reflections on the French Revolution (Part 5)
And the Bismarck goes to....Sanae Takaichi
Reflections on the French Revolution (Part 4)
Reflections on the French Revolution (Part 3)
Foreign Affairs Fifteen: Episode 21
Has Trump given up on Zelensky?
The Grand Inquisitor
Will a profligate France destroy the EU?
Foreign Affairs Fifteen: Episode 20
Trump’s energy deal with Putin illuminates the actual state of the world we live in
Meet the Karamazov’s (Part 2 of 3)
Reflections on a French Revolution (Part 2)
Reflections on a French Revolution (Part 1)
The Brazilian Populist Earthquake
Foreign Affairs Fifteen: Episode 19
Burnham dreams of a Europe that doesn’t exist
Meet the Karamazovs
Enough with the sideshow: Trump should have taken the Iran deal
Foreign Affairs Fifteen: Episode 18
Carney’s Dangerous Delusions
Ike’s analytical courage and Political Risk Analysis
The Genius of the Greenland Deal
The German Establishment Nightmare Continues
Foreign Affairs Fifteen: Episode 17
The Wishcasting over Ukraine must come to an end
Of AI and Railroads
Our Midterm Call: The Democrats will take both the House and the Senate
The Iranians move the Houthi chess piece
Foreign Affairs Fifteen Special Episode III
A sunny day in September
The CDU burns itself with the firewall
Crime & Punishment (Part 3)
As we have been saying for years, a Populist Revolution is coming to Europe
Foreign Affairs Fifteen: Episode 16
The European Establishment Wobbles in Spain
My Friends’ Books: Wess Mitchell’s ‘Great Power Diplomacy’
Crime & Punishment (Part 2)
Trump Makes His Move in Venezuela
Foreign Affairs Fifteen: Episode 15
The DSA is a coalition of the negative
The Axe and the Argument (Part I)
Aristotle’s Curse: Is a US Debt Crisis finally on the Horizon?
Foreign Affairs Fifteen: Episode 14
The Western Hemisphere Rises
Zelensky and the Lincoln Example
A Better Middle East will emerge from the ashes of the Iran War (Part 2)
Foreign Affairs Fifteen: Episode 13
The Democrats are in terrible trouble over Socialism
The Underground Man: Part 2
I do not blame Israel for getting the better of the US; I blame America for letting it (Take 2)
I do not blame Israel for trying to get the better of the US; I blame America for letting it
Foreign Affairs Fifteen: Special Episode II
You cannot fight wars of choice on the cheap
From AI to Tulips
Foreign Affairs Fifteen: Episode 12
Turkeys voting for Thanksgiving: Sanchez has fecklessly lost control of Spain's (and Europe's) borders
It is painfully clear that Iran now has the Strategic Initiative
The Mills of God come for Dr. Fauci
The Underground Man (Part 1)
The Tariff Man Cometh
Foreign Affairs Fifteen: Episode 11
Iran Plays the Red Sea Card
Ready. Aim. Redemption.
Why Andy Burnham Will Fail (Part 2)
Andy Burnham is overwhelmingly likely to fail
Foreign Affairs Fifteen: Episode 10
The Greatest Vice: Cowardice in The Master and Margarita
Demography and the fading of neoconservatism
Foreign Affairs Fifteen (Episode 9)
The Donroe Doctrine is the great foreign policy success that no one is talking about
Is our post-literate society the end of western civilization?
The Guy with the Nazi Tattoo
The Devil Went Down To..... Moscow?
Getting back to Eisenhower's NATO
Threats to the next 50 years of the American Republic
A Political Risk Analysis of the Glorious 4th
A first historical look at the Iran War
The Corpse in The Gilded Frame (Part II)
The Democrats are in danger of the Pauline Kael trap
The cruelty of European elites
Great Political Risk Movies: The Death of Stalin (2017)
Justice comes for Fauci
The Corpse in the Gilded Frame
With Starmer's predictable exit, the British Establishment continue rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic
Foreign Affairs Fifteen: Episode 6
Great Political Risk Movies: Zero Dark Thirty (2102)
Neocon pyromaniacs don’t get to tell realists how to put out the fire that they started
China has problems, too (Part 2)
A Better Middle East will form out of the ashes of the Iran War
At least Trump avoided the ghost of LBJ in ending the Iran War
Great Political Risk Movies: A Man for all Seasons (1966)
Foreign Affairs Fifteen: Episode 5
Pretenders to the Throne: 2028 Primary Contenders Ranked
Cut USAID funding and suddenly the developing world votes for Conservatives
The war from Iranian eyes
Foreign Affairs Fifteen: Episode 4
A midyear look at our 2026 political risk calls
The Iron Laws of Revolution
What we've learned in DC (Part 2)
The UK must stop tolerating the intolerable