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How Canada Should Respond to Trump
Heed the lesson of Thucydides: Only brutality can deter brutal men.
Dec 14, 2024 • 
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A Letter For American Friends
It's not you. It's Trump. And if we're being honest, it's not an entirely bad thing.
Apr 6 • 
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Europe gets it. Does Canada?
Canadian leaders still talk like it's 2017. It's time to get serious. Major sacrifices will be required if this country is to survive.
Mar 12 • 
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Europe gets it. Does Canada?
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The Future of Canada
Some comments of mine followed by an essay by three Canadian scholars
Feb 9 • 
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Is It Fascism?
What the leading book on the subject suggests about Trump and his movement
Mar 16 • 
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What Trump is Costing America
The US-led international order was good for the world. But even better for the US.
Mar 19 • 
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"Beware of the demagogues"
Reagan warned us. Now Canada and the United States will both suffer.
Feb 2 • 
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The Long, Strange, Psychosexual History of Canada and the United States
Things have been good for ages, America. Don't make it weird again.
Jan 12 • 
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The Wisdom of Henry Stimson
Donald Trump is burning what better men made law
Apr 26 • 
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Failures of imagination
Once again, tunnel vision has put us in danger
Feb 23 • 
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A Trumpian History of America
Trump's view of American history is bizarre because Trump's psychology is bizarre
Apr 6 • 
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Musk's Problem? No Alanbrooke.
Even the wise need someone to tell them when they are foolish
Mar 23 • 
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