Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Foreign Policy

Angelo Codevilla on the Helsinki Summit

Required reading. Yes, kiddies, this will be on the final. UPDATE (11:25). Instapundit demurs. (HT: Bill Keezer.)

July 18, 2018
Paul Gottfried contra New York Magazine re: ‘White Nationalism’

Here: As for me, I can’t understand how my work of almost 50 years amounts to a “nativist strategy.” Most of what I’ve published is scholarship on various historical subjects and hardly a strategy for promoting whiteness or ethno-nationalism. What I have argued when writing political polemics is the following: States that are culturally homogeneous…

May 10, 2017
‘America First’ and the Values – Interests Distinction

I just read the following at The Atlantic: [Rex] Tillerson explained “America First” this way. It applies to “national security and economic prosperity, and that doesn’t mean it comes at the expense of others.” This defies common sense. Surely, if we’re first, someone else is second, third, and finally last. Not at all. A perverse…

May 6, 2017
Hillary’s Vacuous ‘Major Foreign Policy Speech’

K. T. McFarland has her number: Hillary Clinton has begun the policy wars with Donald Trump. She gave it her best shot Thursday with what was billed as a major foreign policy speech. I’ll save you the effort to read the transcript. She said in essence, nothing. But she wasted many words in saying it.…

June 3, 2016
The Moral Equivalentism of the Left: “We Are All Islamic State”

Chris Hedges well illustrates the leftist obsession with moral equivalentism in his piece, "We are All Islamic State." I will quote some portions, then comment. The piece begins: Revenge is the psychological engine of war. Victims are the blood currency. Their corpses are used to sanctify acts of indiscriminate murder. Those defined as the enemy…

April 25, 2016
Obama’s Iran Swindle

My man Krauthammer nails it again.

September 11, 2015