Archive - PastPresentFuture

How Canada Should Respond to Trump

Heed the lesson of Thucydides: Only brutality can deter brutal men.

Dec 14, 2024 •

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 •

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 •

The Future of Canada

Some comments of mine followed by an essay by three Canadian scholars

Feb 9 •

What the leading book on the subject suggests about Trump and his movement

Mar 16 •

What Trump is Costing America

The US-led international order was good for the world. But even better for the US.

Mar 19 •

"Beware of the demagogues"

Reagan warned us. Now Canada and the United States will both suffer.

Feb 2 •

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 •

The Wisdom of Henry Stimson

Donald Trump is burning what better men made law

Apr 26 •

Failures of imagination

Once again, tunnel vision has put us in danger

Feb 23 •

A Trumpian History of America

Trump's view of American history is bizarre because Trump's psychology is bizarre

Apr 6 •

Musk's Problem? No Alanbrooke.

Even the wise need someone to tell them when they are foolish

Mar 23 •

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