January 3, 2021

America’s Alliances: The Case for an Overhaul

Here in Switzerland, your correspondent likes to say that the sign of a Great Power is that its internal affairs take precedence over foreign policy considerations. By this standard (and some others), America is certainly such a power. One might ...

November 5, 2020

Why Reparations Will Never Work

Reparations? As global wealth grows, the wealth of productive societies expands at lightning speed. Thereby, the material luxury of modernized countries grows at a rate that would have been deemed to be science fiction a few decades ago. At th...