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One Nuclear War Can Ruin the Whole Climate A

By Ted Nordhaus and Mark Lynas - May 15, 2025

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Principles of Government · August 25, 2025 ·

By Ted Nordhaus and Mark Lynas – Nuclear winter, by contrast, would destroy civilization beyond repair within months or years. Yet unlike climate change, which has preoccupied activists for decades, it is largely ignored.
Conflicts between nuclear-armed adversaries remind us that no other risk to human societies remotely rivals nuclear warfare. Read More

Filed Under: (A) China and the Far East, (A) Energy and Environmental Policy, (A) National Defense and Foreign Policy, (A) Science, Technology and Innovation, Articles

Henry Kissinger, Statesman and Friend A

By Eric Schmidt - Dec. 1, 2023

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Principles of Government · August 25, 2025 ·

By Eric Schmidt – Henry had a simple model of geopolitical progress: You try to figure out what the other side wants, understand its motivations and pain points, and then find something that is possible and that it will see as an improvement. He was a fearsome negotiator with an impressive grasp of other countries’ history and an ability to assess their leaders realistically and to think three moves ahead. He viewed American culture as not strategic in this way: We tend to approach adversaries with a list of demands when we should have a conversation about a stable long-term outcome.

Grand strategy in his mind was exactly that. The exploitation of the Sino-Soviet split was a natural outgrowth of this approach.  Read More

Filed Under: (A) China and the Far East, (A) Culture, Character and Ideology, (A) National Defense and Foreign Policy, Articles, Education, Culture, Ideology

Ed Feulner Built Institutions in Support of American Values A

By Mike Pence - July 21, 2025

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Principles of Government · February 6, 2024 ·

By Mike Pence – As the founder of the Heritage Foundation, Ed was a leading voice of conservatism for more than 50 years. Under his leadership, Heritage became both a center for scholarship and a powerhouse of strategic influence. 

What concerned him, as always, was the long-term health of the American Republic, and the strength of the institutions that would defend it for generations to come.

 Ed didn’t just build up institutions; he cultivated a movement that brought ivory tower ideas into the public square and never lost sight of the moral and spiritual foundations of liberty. Read More

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Trump’s Big Opportunity in Japan A

By Mike Gallager - June 11, 2025

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Principles of Government · June 14, 2025 ·

By Mike Gallager – Japan undergirds U.S. power in the Pacific. It has one of the world’s largest economies …It’s time to take a lesson from Mr. Ohtani and swing for the fences, moving beyond a narrow focus on sectoral trade deficits. America must build new institutions designed to defend both countries from the Chinese Communist Party’s economic aggression, the way our alliance already defends us from Chinese military aggression.

Economic aggression has generated China’s trillion-dollar—and growing—trade surplus, backed by suppressed domestic demand, subsidies for strategic industries and intellectual-property theft on a staggering scale. Joining forces with Japan against this aggression would move trade talks … to the more productive question of how to regain or preserve dominance in shipbuilding, semiconductors and software. Read More

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Four Steps to Creating a National Defense Strategy Built on Strength A

By John G. Ferrari | Elaine McCusker | Todd Harrison - June 12, 2025

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Principles of Government · June 22, 2025 ·

By John G. Ferrari | Elaine McCusker | Todd Harrison – The new Pentagon leadership has set itself up to potentially oversee fundamental changes that could dramatically improve military warfighting capabilities for decades to come. In addition to realigning the defense budget, organizational structures, and acquisition policies to support warfighters, key decisions are still pending on how and where America will defend its security and prosperity. Read More

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Characteristics of Government

  • INTRODUCTION
  • SOCIALISM
  • COMPETITION
  • DEMOCRACY AND VOTING
  • SOCIAL POLICIES EFFECTS ON DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT
  • GOALS OF PROGRESSIVISM AND THE MODERN LEFT
  • EVOLVING IDEOLOGIES
  • DEMOCRACIES AND NATIONAL DEFENSE

Principles of Government

  • INTRODUCTION
  • CITIZENSHIP
  • BELIEF SYSTEM
  • GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE AND POLITICAL SYSTEM
  • FISCAL POLICIES
  • SOCIAL POLICIES
  • FREE MARKETS AND REGULATION
  • SOUND MONEY
  • THE RULE OF LAW
  • DEFENSE AND FOREIGN POLICY
  • Conservation and Environment

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Characteristics of Government

  • INTRODUCTION
  • SOCIALISM
  • COMPETITION
  • DEMOCRACY AND VOTING
  • SOCIAL POLICIES EFFECTS ON DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT
  • GOALS OF PROGRESSIVISM AND THE MODERN LEFT
  • EVOLVING IDEOLOGIES
  • DEMOCRACIES AND NATIONAL DEFENSE

Principles of Good Government

  • INTRODUCTION
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  • BELIEF SYSTEM
  • GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE AND POLITICAL SYSTEM
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