Articles & Blog Posts by Francis P. Sempa

• Maybe empires aren't so bad?
• Virtue-signaling tennis networks erase players' flags
• America’s Strategy in World Politics
• Mike Pompeo and the Guns of October
• 'Trump is Hitler' rears its ugly head again
• Democrats have got to stop using James Taylor
• Progressives and the new great power rivalry
• The Man Who Won the War
• George Weigel attacks an America First foreign policy
• What Joe McCarthy got right
• It’s Time for a 21st Century NSC-68
• Americans who don't know their geography can't understand the Ukraine war
• How about some international restraint on Ukraine?
• Condoleezza Rice joins the Old Guard in denial about Russia
• Codevilla's last words on America's Asia-Pacific policy
• Is détente with China a good idea?
• An academic tells us the 'safe' way to escalate the Ukraine War
• The key to understanding our ruling elites
• Henry Kissinger on leadership
• 'I told you so': MacArthur called it 70 years ago
• Can Liz Cheney really escape the shadow of her father?
• Charles Kupchan is half-right in his call for geopolitical realpolitik
• The 'rules-based international order' is a myth
• It looks as though the war is widening in Ukraine
• Anchors away...or should I say, 'Pronouns away'?
• Conservatives need to stop supporting people who hate them
• The 'raw judicial power' that overturning Roe v. Wade fixed
• 'The US has undone all that Nixon accomplished'
• The war in Ukraine and 'the follies of the victors'
• Edward Luttwak's take on Ukraine
• The N.Y. Times’ Bret Stephens fails Geopolitics 101
• The rise and fall of the American empire
• The U.S. Needs the Mature Realism of Walter Lippmann
• June 6: A special day in our household
• Thomas Friedman and World War III
• Bret Stephens Says Biden Should Channel Truman on China-Taiwan – Really?
• Why does Biden keep on poking the Russian bear?
• Time for Strategic Clarity on Taiwan
• George Will on Biden's 'achievement'
• The war on police meets the Uvalde shooting
• Kissinger at Davos
• Repeating Jimmy Carter's mistakes in the nuclear arms race
• Bari Weiss notices that the elites have turned against America
• Should George W. Bush go down in history as one of our worst presidents?
• What Would America's Two Greatest Statesmen Think of NATO?
• Is Britain making a mistake about Finland and Sweden?
• The return of Vindman, clamoring to start World War III
• Heroes and villains in Abortionland
• George Bush needs to get a grip and stop Churchill-izing Zelensky
• Paul Krugman needs a history lesson on Russia and Ukraine
• Pelosi commits the United States to Ukraine's victory
• China’s Belt and Road Initiative is a Geopolitical Offensive
• Putin is not Hitler, Zelensky is not Churchill, and Biden is not FDR.
• World War Three? Worry more about World War One
• The Slow, Agonizing Death of Neoconservatism
• How about we fight just one Cold War at a time?
• Maureen Dowd takes on geopolitics...and loses
• New York Times plays favorites with its evil autocrats
• Bill Clinton's supreme NATO screw-up comes back to haunt us
• National Review's Kevin Williamson redefines conservatism
• Putin's geostrategic guru?
• Are we sure US politicians want to end the war in Ukraine?
• No more American crusades, please
• Mike Pence's 'Berlin Airlift'
• Zelensky suspends media and opposition parties
• Anti-Trump National Review has forgotten Buckley's rule
• Joe Biden's crash-and-burn foreign policy exposed
• Questioning the Ukraine war does not make you a 'Putin apologist'
• 'This is what happens when you poke the bear'
• National Review stands athwart history and yells...and nobody listens
• Will China act as mediator between Russia and Ukraine?
• Trump impeachment witness calls for 'Lend-Lease' to Ukraine
• How Mississippi could cause World War III
• Meet the man who predicted the Ukraine war 30 years ago
• The new gangster pact
• Laurence Tribe revives the Alien and Sedition Acts...and then retreats
• Roger Wicker plays dominoes
• Naomi Wolf vs. the forces of darkness
• Biden administration letting America's nuclear superiority slip through our fingers
• Acclaimed Chinese war propaganda film bodes ill for US relations
• Mahan and the Problem of China
• When leftists start defending the military leadership...
• Repeal the 17th Amendment
• An Eerie Warning from Hans Morgenthau
• Afghanistan was a failure of our elites
• Geopolitics And An Asian Pope
• James Burnham: An Original American Thinker
• Is Democracy Worth It?