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Kamala for President to Save Democracy
Friday, November 1, 2024 at 11:00 AM
Authoritarianism
Alexei Navalny, Russia’s Heroic Fool, Is Dead
Friday, February 16, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Navalny meets his fateful end The death of Alexei Navalny is as predictable as it is deplorable. After all, any Russian who becomes a thorn in the side of Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime ends up dead. And Navalny was the thorniest of them all. Not least because of the way he lampooned Putin for living like a czar… Read more.
Henry Kissinger, the Iago of Geopolitics, Leaves the World Stage
Thursday, November 30, 2023 at 11:24 AM
Kissinger, authoritarian whisperer of realpolitik Henry Kissinger was a titan of 20th-century geopolitics. But his legacy is as complex as it is controversial. Many hailed him as a master strategist. I railed against him as a cunning narcissist. He courted praise for dispensing sage chess-like geopolitical advice. Yet, I can fairly distill his diplomatic treatise… Read more.