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  Testing Time for Farage and Boris

  Ralph Berry | November 11, 2019

  The end of the phoney war is now in sight. The Conservative combatants in the general election have indulged their training exercises, which are to close squares round Boris’s deal and find evermore reasons to belittle Corbyn. Labour is engaged in its eternal war between Mensheviks and Bolsheviks, with the current outcome in the balance. The ScotNats bare their teeth at everything south of Hadrian’s Wall…

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  Correcting Ancient Blunders: China Rediscovers Sea Power

  Srdja Trifkovic | November 8, 2019

  On November 8 Dr. Trifkovic presented a paper on China’s geostrategy and U.S. response at a major conference in Budapest, New Dimensions and Generational Leap in Warfare, organized by the Hungarian Defense Forces General Staff Scientific Research Centre. The event was attented by several general officers from NATO countries, over a hundred Hungarian officers, as well as civilian academic experts. We bring you a slightly abbreviated version of our foreign affairs editor's presentation.

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  The New Class Controversy

  Christopher Lasch | November 7, 2019

  The recent successes of the American right depend, in part, on its ability to deflect lower-middle-class resentment from the rich to a parasitic "new class" of professional problem-solvers and moral relativists. In 1975, William Rusher of the National Review referred to the emergence of a "verbalist" elite, "neither businessmen nor manufacturers, blue-collar workers or farmers," as the "great central fact" of recent American history. "The producers of America," Rusher said, "have a common…

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  Mexico: The Insurgency Next Door

  Tom Piatak | November 6, 2019

  Recently, we learned that the Mexican drug cartels are capable of defeating the Mexican Army in a pitched firefight. Then we learned that the cartels are literally building altars of human skulls. This week the Mexican cartels brutally murdered nine Americans, including young children. In 1916, the murder of American civilians by Mexican bandits was enough to prompt Woodrow Wilson to send Jack Pershing and many of the men who would later fight under Pershing on the Western Front…

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