Chess and warfare are filled with paradoxes. Most people don’t play chess, which means they don’t understand war. And it shows. To be fair, the paradoxes of war often bamboozle the uninitiated and can look downright evil or brutal. However, refusing to follow the weird logic of war
Grow your own food, treat your own health and raise your own children. That’s hard, really hard, but nothing worth doing is easy.
Why is it so hard for politicians and media to call out violence when initiated by certain groups? Plus a few observations on the ongoing hypocrisy of some New Zealand sportspeople.
The Thanksgiving menu isn’t the only conversation starter. Add in North Korea posturing against the US and the battle in the halls of Congress over bathroom rights and the kitchen table discussion just got interesting.
The Houthi threat warrants serious attention because the group undermines the principle of freedom of navigation, a cornerstone of global stability.
Some climate conference decisions were laughable. Makes you wonder why we bother. Nothing’s changing.
Julian Spencer-Churchill Dr. Julian Spencer-Churchill is associate professor of international relations at Concordia University, and author of Militarization and War (2007) and of Strategic Nuclear Sharing (2014). It is now a truism that political leaders don’t initiate wars with the expectation that they will be protracted contests of attrition.
A chainsaw for bureaucracy. Too many politicians don’t really understand economics, but Milei clearly does.
The longer the hole persists, the greater the likelihood that the ozone layer is dominated by natural factors, not human CFC emissions.
Some aspects of Trump’s immigration policy have the potential for fueling further expansion of a federal police state.
We need to think ahead, act instead of reacting and look for the clues about what they’re going to roll out next.
