Author: Ronald Dodson

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15 minutes

The War in Iran Is a Mistake

How Trump can make the best of an increasingly bad situation.

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10 minutes

The Problem of the Veto State

Managerialism is the culprit behind the SAVE Act’s struggles.

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7 minutes

The Age of Democracy Promotion Is Over

A Cold War relic that needs to be discarded.

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6 minutes

The 2025 National Security Strategy as Political Philosophy

It assumes that clarity on matters of principle precedes consensus.

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10 minutes

Foreign Policy, Strauss-Style

The moral task of American statecraft in our time.

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5 minutes

Cutting Back the Administrative State

A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to downsize the bureaucracy.

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8 minutes

“The British Aren’t Coming!”

The decline and fall of the non-American Anglosphere.

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Solving America’s Entitlement Crisis

A return to self-government.

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Countering China’s Eurasian Bloc Is Our Real Challenge

It poses the most significant geopolitical threat to the West.

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Striking Iran Would Be a Mistake

The realist case in a new era of regionalism.

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Power in the Age of Fracture, Part II

Strategic decoupling in an age of Western rebellion.

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5 minutes

Power in the Age of Fracture, Part I

The populist rebellion against globalism.

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