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For the first time, the DOE will be led by someone from the energy sector.

Georgetown University sits on a hilltop above the Potomac. Its flagship school, the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, trains America’s future diplomats, senior military officers, and intelligence operatives. Its graduates include Bill Clinton and a long list of senators, ambassadors, a CIA director, two White House chiefs of staff, the king of Spain, and various heads of state. The school also grants degrees to foreign students. I enrolled in its master’s degree program after spending years as a Swedish military officer and diplomat. I was interested in making a career transition from my country’s armed forces, where I’d spent nearly a decade, to diplomatic service. I’d done two tours in Afghanistan, three in Africa and some diplomatic and commercial work in the Persian Gulf. I wanted to study at one of the world’s premier schools of diplomacy. What I found at Georgetown was far from what I had expected.

The habits that have masqueraded as it in this century – economic and social liberalism, a fondness for international conventions and squeamish refusal to fight cultural battles – are in no small way responsible for many of the problems Britain face.

The Obama coalition is not coming back.

The Democrats are once again shocked to discover that women do not vote in accordance with their genitals.

Its political power has broken, but Wokeism is still ruining the culture

The 2024 election saw a rejection of lawfare, with Democratic prosecutors’ efforts to prosecute Donald Trump failing to make a significant impact on the outcome.

In a just world, Donald Trump would have won the Nobel Peace Prize for securing the historic Abraham Accords peace agreements of 2020. So too, in a just world,…

President Trump’s decisive victory this week will change many things (though the disdain of the liberal establishment towards the views of ordinary voters doesn’t appear to be one of them). It will take time to sink in. Presumptions about the way the world works are going to have to adjust.

Andrew T. Walker | But evangelicals show they aren’t taking their cues from high-profile critics

The slide from a world that presupposes nation-states to a world of competing empires will have dramatic effects on Christian mission and ministry.

Less reliance on America would yield a stronger alliance and a safer Europe.

How Teddy Roosevelt can help save us from our Marie Antoinette problem

How deregulation and private equity have gutted the U.S. freight rail system—and with it, the promise of America’s industrial renewal.

An essay by Jeff Shafer