Authors

Francis P. Sempa

Francis P. Sempa is the author of “Geopolitics: From the Cold War to the 21st Century” and “America’s Global Role.” His work has appeared in Strategic Review, the Diplomat, Joint Force Quarterly, the Claremont Review of Books, the Asian Review of Books, the South China Morning Post, the National Interest, and other publications.
by | Dec 31, 2024

Most of the stories related to the death of former President Jimmy Carter noted that he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for “his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy…

by | Dec 30, 2024

Former President Jimmy Carter died at the age of 100. As president, Jeane Kirkpatrick brilliantly explained, he was an abysmal failure. On his watch, the economic “misery index” skyrocketed and the geopolitical correlation of forces shifted in the Soviets’ favor….

by | Dec 26, 2024

On Dec. 26, 1991, the upper house of the Soviet legislature officially voted to end the empire that was the Soviet Union. The day before, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union’s last ruler, announced his resignation, and Russian leader Boris Yeltsin…

by | Dec 25, 2024

Nothing defines the leadership of the Democratic Party better than its positions on the death penalty and abortion. They save murderers while ensuring the “right” to kill babies. What else explains President Biden’s commutation of 37 of the 40 murderers…

by | Dec 23, 2024

According to a Wall Street Journal report based on interviews with numerous Biden administration officials and aides, candidate and later President Joe Biden suffered from cognitive decline in his 2020 campaign and from the very beginning of his presidency, which…

by | Dec 17, 2024

In April 1939, ex-communist underground courier Whittaker Chambers was hired by Time magazine to review books for Henry Luce’s flagship publication. Chambers began his journey into communism in the mid-1920s. In the early 1930s, he joined the underground, accepting and…

by | Dec 15, 2024

Seventy-five years ago China fell to the communists. Revisionist history can be a touchy subject, especially when it attempts to correct an “accepted” version of history that has been passed on to generations of Americans by teachers in high schools…

by | Dec 13, 2024

In the featured article on the U.S. Naval Institute’s flagship Proceedings website, Lt. Commander Aaron Marchant of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) warns that while we rightly focus today on deterring a Chinese blockade, attack, or…

by | Dec 10, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Michael Anton to be the State Department’s director of policy and planning bodes well for the country’s foreign policy as we enter what could be some of the most dangerous years of the 21st century….

by | Dec 8, 2024

In 1986, historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, wrote The Cycles of American History, which included a chapter on the cycle of American politics. Schlesinger viewed America’s political cycles as alterations “between public purpose” (which as a liberal, he favored) and “private…

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