ESSENTIAL READING | The Battle to Live “Like Free People”
Historian Benjamin Nathans of the University of Pennsylvania lifts his new book’s title from the traditional vodka toast of Soviet dissidents: to the “success of our hopeless cause”.
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Has the Canada-US Strategic Split Become Irreversible?
And what does that mean for the next era of strategic alliances? A new NATO? A new period of diminished cooperation between the US and Mexico, the US and European NATO, and so on?
Has Türkiye Finally Been Forced Off the Fence? And for How Long?
ESSENTIAL READING | The US at 250
The Next Strategic Advantage: the Restoration of Literacy
Perhaps the “experiment” in universal, forced literacy, has been a failure, an historical blip. Literacy is in retreat because of technology and because inquiring minds challenge leadership patterns. Yet intellectual capacity— signified by literacy— determines strategic success. What is to be done?