Florence with Dante
Had Dante been alive today, he would have reserved an inner circle of hell for the bureaucrats
World
Thursday
Wednesday
Stop pretending Ukraine will ever be in NATO
It’s a fantasy that accomplishes nothing except to provoke Vladimir Putin
Tuesday
America needs more than ‘guardrails’ with China
The Biden-Xi summit revealed only the irreconcilable differences between Washington and Beijing
Saturday
Communist China abandons Confucius
They’ve strayed far from their roots, though maybe America can still learn from him
Friday
The dictator behind Europe’s next migrant crisis
Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus has the EU over a barrel
Tuesday
Kamala in Paris
America’s most undiplomatic politician heads to France to unwind a diplomatic faux pas
Thursday
The Grand Old Duke of York attacks an Epstein victim
Prince Andrew has never looked more desperate and vindictive
Friday
What’s wrong with Queen Elizabeth?
Something might well be wrong
Wednesday
America has few good options in Haiti
US missionaries have been kidnapped by a gang — yet there’s very little we can do about it
Tuesday
Don’t fear North Korea’s recent missile launch
It might have driven clicks but it’s not a serious threat to anyone
Monday
Evergrande illusions
Expect more Evergrandes from China’s command economy
Scotland by sleeper
Wanting to avoid the airport, I took a late-evening, six-and-a-half-hour train from Edinburgh to Bristol
Tuesday
The Taliban learn just how hard governing Afghanistan is
A civil war America is thankfully no longer a part of
Thursday
Greta Thunberg didn’t win the German elections
The Greens did well, yes, but so did a party of forward-thinking classical liberals
Wednesday
Taiwan could spark a war between America and China
If current trends persist, it’s a matter of when and not if
Biden stole Trump’s foreign policy
He promised a sea change but he’s done next to nothing different
Friday
The next real estate crisis could come from China
Evergrande is in serious trouble
Wednesday
The foreign policy amateur
So far Biden has alienated allies and layered on the bureaucracy — what next?
Tuesday
Biden’s big UN whopper
He says America doesn’t want to fight ‘the wars of the past’, but we still are
Sunday
Ticking off the French was strategic genius
America used a submarine deal to send a message to the freeloading Europeans
