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Are We Back on Course with Ukraine?
Has Trump’s flip-flopping nature finally flipped the right way at last? Could it be that, after wasting 9 months on isolationist utopia, the US president is finally seeing the optimism that could change the course of the Russian-Ukrainian War?

How Civil Wars Start
Charlie Kirk's broadcast murder is jarring. We are not, in our snug, safe liberal societies, used to seeing assassinations of high profile figures being carried out in broad daylight…

Been Mugged by Reality, Mr. President?
Irving Kristol’s quip that a “neoconservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality” is one of my favorites. In a single line, the late Mr. Kristol characterized the entire mentality shift involved in going from naive utopianism in international politics to a resolved realist…