Central planning cannot correct demographic problems, but that doesn't mean we can't know what the "right" demographic outcome is.
David P. Goldman
The United States is engaged in a halfhearted tech war with China.
A recent book ostensibly about "oikophobia" seems intent merely on spreading the misery.
A strategy of détente with Russia and China would buy the United States time to rebuild its technological and military capabilities.
Cultural extinction is the norm. What shall we make of the exceptions?
Martin Heidegger promised to make man the Master of Being. Perhaps we should blame Heidegger, not Marx, for putting our culture on the path to decline.
The United States has coasted on its Cold War success for thirty years while China has devoted enormous resources to become a high-tech superpower.
By being the leader in technology, do Americans lose their humanity?
The United States is midway through a massive social experiment that has no historical precedent.
Lincoln summoned us to sacrifices that seemed too great to bear, and after his death we decided that we never would make such sacrifices again.
In his indictment of America's national decline, Johnston's belief that America has the wherewithal to restore itself shines through.
America has enormous power, but the Biden Administration and the Federal Reserve are abusing it.
Addressing stagnation will require government intervention, but of a highly selective kind aimed at spurring innovation.
It is magical thinking to believe that the United States can run large deficits indefinitely.
It is high time to focus on what China does right rather than what it does wrong—and undertake to do it better.
Eastern European leaders haven't lived out Montesquieu’s ideal of checks and balances, but their actions fall far short of Nazism.
The fact that America no longer needs to play policeman in the Persian Gulf compels the Gulf states to act responsibly as a matter of self-preservation.
Democracy may be superior to authoritarianism, but that does not guarantee that every democracy will prevail over every autocracy.
The market has sent a shot over our bow to tell us that we cannot accumulate budget and trade deficits forever.
The coronavirus epidemic is a shock to China’s political system, but—unless the death toll spirals out of control—it is probably one China can absorb.
Quantum communications, a Chinese invention, have revolutionized signals intelligence. The United States needs to catch up.
Only regaining U.S. technological superiority, and placing it once again at the center of U.S. strategy, can revitalize the NATO alliance.