Eileen Gu, Jingoism, and Olympic Politics
“I do corks in an icy, 22-foot, U-shaped snow structure. That’s not political. It’s pushing the human limit and it’s connecting people.”
~ Eileen Gu, winner of three Olympic medals
Jacksonian Populism and the Trans-Atlantic Persuasion
Russian Weakness and the Russian “Threat” to the West
The current advocates for US aggression against Russia would have us believe that Russia is some sort of peer of the United States and of Western Europe.
Tom Rogan at the hawkish Washington Examiner, for example, insists that Russia is a “great power,” presumably comparable to the United States in spite of Russia’s small economy.
Biden’s White Elephant: Subsidizing Charging Station Buildout for EVs
Finding the most appropriate title for this Federal boondoggle was difficult, because of the number of government projects that waste taxpayer funds. History tells us that the private sector is a more efficient allocator of capital. From the factsheet:
Cancel the Mandates, Leave the Workers Alone
President Joe Biden recently extended the US national emergency for covid-19. A confrontation between truckers protesting Canadian covid mandates and the government in Ottawa has turned ugly.
Bob Murphy vs. Dave Smith on the Johns Hopkins Lockdown Study
Invisible Data
Federal Reserve Bank of New York President and CEO John C. Williams gave a speech Friday outlining the Fed’s monetary tightening plan, Restoring Balance. He provided succinct details over the central bank’s intended course of action, yet failed to show an understanding of the Fed and Government’s role in causing our economic woes. Thus, there is no reason to believe America’s boom and bust cycle will stop anytime soon.
The Legacy of Angela Merkel: Kicking the Can Down the Road
In the months since Angela Merkel’s departure from the German Chancellorship after sixteen years in power, the editorials praising her reign have been legion.
This is not one of them.
US Foreign Policy Has Always Been Aggressive
With so much having been made in the past decade of China’s behavior in its immediate neighborhood—from jousting with Japan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands to building up and occupying the Spratly Islands, from harassing Filipino fishermen to engaging in actual border clashes with India—it is worth stepping back and taking a wider view of Chinese behavior in its immediate vicinity.
Is it unprecedented?
How did other large, rising, militarily capable states behave?
How, for example, did the rising United States behave?
