2015 in U.S.-Vietnam Relations: White House Chronicle

November 19, 2014 by

January 28, 2015: Lllewellyn and Linda sit down with Colin Jackson, Assistant Professor at Naval War College, to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing the U.S. and Vietnam in the upcoming year.

Soft Power, the Secret Sauce of the British Empire

Llewellyn King

When President Trump, on the first day of his second term, closed the U.S. Agency for International Development and began dismantling the Voice of America, he also severely curtailed what had been America’s soft power dominance in the world. With those actions, we abandoned something of inestimable value: the ability to project Americanism, our ideals. […]

A British Immigrant’s Defense of Immigration

Llewellyn King

Migration, people moving to new lands, is as old as human history, and as fraught. Today it is a global problem complete with layered hypocrisy, cruelty and, always, hope among those on the move. War and extreme poverty collude in driving people to seek a livable future. There is no simple solution, no slogan that […]

The Birth of a New Reactor: Thorium Past and Present

Llewellyn King

If you are designing a car from scratch, there are certain essentials to begin with. You need to start with the wheels on the corners, for example. But when it comes to building a nuclear reactor, things are different. There are hundreds and maybe thousands of ways of doing it. The constant is that you […]

Air Conditioning Costs Threaten Summer of Sun Belt Catastrophe

Llewellyn King

The summer of our discontent is at hand. When I asked a professional weather forecaster what we might expect this season, he said, “Hades.” That was as disturbing as everything else in this disturbing year. America has a summer culture. You could say the whole of the Northern Hemisphere has one, but there is a […]