Scholar @HudsonInstitute, professor @UF and columnist @WSJ. Latest book The Arc of a Covenant available for purchase using the link below.
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I'm deeply honored by the Academy's choice. Like Professor Guelzo and so many other colleagues at the Hamilton School I hope to do my part to renew and transmit a priceless intellectual and cultural tradition to the next generation.
Two Hamilton School scholars have been invested as members of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters (@AASL_Academy).
Allen C. Guelzo and Walter Russell Mead (@wrmead) were recognized for outstanding scholarly achievement at a ceremony at the Library of Congress. They now join a distinguished company that includes Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, and leading voices across the humanities and sciences.
Congratulations to Professors Guelzo and Mead!
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The Middle East is a bad habit America can’t break. But there’s an easier path than the one we’ve been on. Hint: it involves working with India. wsj.com/opinion/why-the-midd…
Lula’s re-election was not the outcome the White House wanted, but living with Lula is smarter than the alternative. wsj.com/opinion/the-common-g…
Vidal’s American historical novels were often entertaining though rarely instructive. I doubt JFK had to work very hard to persuade him to lie.
Headlines from 1793
"France functions for America’s various conservative factions as a kind of crystal ball." @SohrabAhmari @unherd.
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Sorry that @colossusjeremy has had to move on, but @bill_drexel is a worthy successor.
News: I'm taking over as co-host of What Really Matters with @wrmead . I’ve been a fan of the show for a long time, and I couldn’t be more excited to join Walter in parsing the news and finding the signal in the noise
In my first episode: the Houthis' widening missile war on Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon's livestreamed-execution plan, Kimberly Guilfoyle's fall, and why Trump's shock-and-awe foreign policy isn't slowing down.
Big thanks to @colossusjeremy and the team @tabletmag for 140+ episodes, and to @HudsonInstitute for giving the show a home.
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Generational politics are bad enough as impatient youths struggle against the establishment. See India. Add ethnic and civilizational clashes against a background of economic stagnation and you get… France. wsj.com/opinion/the-generati…
Great joining @jordihays and @johncoogan on @tbpn today.
The old cocoon of stable democratic capitalism is rotting. We must build what comes next before the old order becomes impossible to escape.
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One important tool for pushing Putin towards peace: roll up his networks of assets and spies in Europe and elsewhere.
August Hanning was head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service under Gerhard Schröder during the period in which Berlin got hooked on Russian energy, with Hanning backing Nord Stream 1.
Days after Russia launched its full scale invasion of Ukraine, Hanning publicly argued Western arms deliveries wouldn’t make much difference and said he hoped “normal relations” with Russia could be restored soon.
After the Nord Stream explosion, he quickly and baselessly made accusations about Polish and Ukrainian responsibility, and suggested Germany should seek compensation from Poland and Ukraine.
Hanning has also previously smeared Latvia.
He joined the supervisory council of Norvik Banka, later PNB Banka, which subsequently collapsed. Its insolvency administrator later brought a €32 million damages claim against former board and supervisory council members, including Hanning.
During the process, Hanning publicly made sweeping allegations of corruption about Latvian officials and institutions. In later arbitration proceedings, an international tribunal said he made unsubstantiated claims.
He has today been arrested on suspicion of espionage, attempted treason and obtaining state secrets.
Bad as President Trump’s polling numbers may be, Macron is at half his approval rate and Merz at 1/3. From Britain to Brazil, it’s a tough rear for incumbents.
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Trump and Xi don’t get much done at their latest summit, and that’s not a bad thing. Sometimes a little tap dancing and improv is the best you can do.
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Join @colossusjeremy and me next week for a live episode of What Really Matters. Between UNGA and the Trump-Xi summit, there should be plenty to talk about.
On Sept. 23, @wrmead and @colossusjeremy will film an exclusive live recording of their podcast, "What Really Matters."
Join in person as Mead and Stern help make sense of the news and the most consequential developments in politics and world affairs.
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In which I get interviewed by Polymarket. news.polymarket.com/p/slop-o…
As geopolitical competition heats up, the pressures on American colleges to rediscover their patriotism are likely to grow. wsj.com/opinion/higher-ed-wi…
Though one of the reasons she dumped and bumped Peter was that he was too pro-Prussia.
“Every American foreign policy intellectual had two things to say about 9/11,” my old CFR boss Les Gelb used to say. “First, this changes EVERYTHING! And second, it proves I’ve been right along.” 25 years later, he’s still got our number.
Much obliged!!
Other than my own Invested podcast 😉, this conversation between @wrmead and @patrick_oshag is the BEST thing you will listen to this week.
I have had the honor of meeting Walter in Israel during the war, and he is one of the most clear thinking civilizational analysts alive.
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Europe’s problems keep getting more serious. Europeans themselves, not so much. The real message of the AdF win in Saxony-Anhalt: time is that Europe is running out of time. wsj.com/opinion/europe-hits-…
