The American Conservative 6/24/2024 Ideas for Candidates Beyond Talking Points

Ideas for Candidates Beyond Talking Points Americans want a nation that leads by example. The candidates for the presidency and Congress should provide it to them. You can read the article here: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/ideas-for-candidates-beyond-talking-points/ If you prefer to listen to the article with a voice generated AI, go here: https://youtu.be/O1ZtaxdQtQo

China and the Global Culture War: Western Civilizational Turmoil and Beijing’s Strategic Calculus

The study of great-power competition between China and the broader West (including the United States, Europe, and the Anglosphere) today tends toward tunnel vision with its focus fixed on the narrow range of issues most familiar to geopolitical analysts in Washington, including economic and security affairs. Less tangible issues of culture, society, morality, and ideology are largely ignored—even though it is precisely such issues that are now driving increasingly ferocious and fundamental political debates within the West over the future of our civilization.