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March 11, 2015 by Linda Gasparello Leave a Comment

Are We Surrendering Americanism to Identity Politics?

Francis Fukuyama earned his place in philosophical history by declaring “the end of history” on the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism. Nowadays Fukuyama, an engaging traveler through the world of ideas, poses this great question: Where are we going? In New York on Sept. 11, Fukuyama seemed to answer that […]

Cyberattack on the Infrastructure Alarms Petraeus, Coats

Llewellyn King

War always goes for the infrastructure: take out the bridges, cut off the electricity and water supplies. All that used to be done with artillery, tanks and bombs. Going forward, it will be done by computers: Cyberwar. Every day the early skirmishes — the tryout phase, if you will – are taking place. There are […]

Llewellyn King on The Morning Briefing with Tim Farley. Topic: John McCain, Nuclear

Llewellyn King

Llewellyn talks to host Tim Farley about John McCain, the late Republican senator from Arizona; and about the events that led environmentalists to choose coal over nuclear, thus allowing untold millions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere, and now making that same mistake with wind and solar, technologies whose spent parts are creating a […]

Are the Environmentalists Making Another Mistake?

Llewellyn King

I’m a tree-hugger. Yep, an environmentalist, but I wouldn’t care to be known as such. Just the word suspiciously signals virtue, and environmentalists and their movement haven’t always been on the side of the environment. In the 1970s and 1980s, I sat through many meetings when environmentalists advocated for coal over nuclear. That’s like their […]

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