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(03/29/17 3:47pm)
As the eagle retreats, the dragon and the bear have gained ground across the geopolitical realm. President Donald J. Trump directing our nation’s grand strategy inwards is playing into the hands of the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation. Both nations seek to create and maintain a new world order—without the United States at the helm of global leadership—in order to undermine the progress made in bringing the world together instead of pushing us apart. This is a turn for the worse. Our country’s leadership needs to recalibrate its approach for the sake of ensuring stability, peace and prosperity for not only the United States of America, but also for the entire free world.
(02/22/17 6:51am)
Civilization is experiencing a great convergence. Automation, globalization, rising economic inequality, protectionism, wage stagnation, political volatility and a rise in populism are all contributing to a changing world in ways that few could have predicted. Millions of people will be forced into financial unsustainability. Political instability will proliferate as economic anxiety results. Debt growth will exceed income growth as wages remain stagnant and countless jobs are rendered obsolete. In the end, the cause of forming a “more perfect Union” as embedded in the Constitution of the United States of America will be undermined once more as our domestic tranquility is tested by the seismic change of an unfolding new world.
(10/31/16 7:41pm)
The Seal of the United States of America holds our national motto as “E pluribus unum”—Out of Many, One. Yet, the division wrought from this year’s presidential election undermines the feeling of national unity our motto aims to convey. Normally, the quadrennial ceremony of electing our national representative is one that evokes the deepest passions of Americans of all backgrounds and political affiliations; however, this year is uniquely different. I need not delve into the elements of both Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump’s flawed characters that have ignited the flames of enmity which have fragmented a sense of common purpose to a greater extent than most elections prior. Instead, I’ve been focused lately on what binds the fabric of our people together—and what I ultimately believe this should mean for the choice made at the polls this November.
(10/18/16 3:37pm)
In 1967, the United States of America, the United Kingdom and the Russian Federation signed the Outer Space Treaty in collaboration with the United Nations. This established international space law for 104 countries by prohibiting the placement of weapons of mass destruction within Earth’s orbit, on the Moon and on any other celestial body. President Lyndon Johnson remarked that this treaty was an “inspiring moment in the history of the human race” because it would prevent the spread of the world’s most powerful weapons beyond our planet. While noting that humanity has “never succeeded in freeing our planet from the implements of war...we can at least keep the virus from spreading” into the infinitude of the universe. The treaty was a monumental achievement not only because it limited the world’s most dangerous nuclear, chemical and biological weapons to Earth, but also because it set the geopolitical framework for the new space economy.
(09/27/16 4:56am)
The confluence of economic failures on a multidimensional level has a way of historically seeping into politics that affects our daily lives. Parallels repeat themselves across nations as economic weakness affects citizens on both a global and domestic basis provoking boom and bust cycles that create bubbles which gradually erode stability.
(09/13/16 5:48am)
A senator of the early days of the Roman Republic, Cato the Elder, had a penchant for ending every speech he gave with a particular phrase and a call to action amidst the series of Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage during the second-century B.C. In the eyes of Cato, the Phoenician city-state of Carthage constituted an existential threat to the survival of the republic and had to be dealt with militarily in order to quell the danger it posed to Rome and its people. Failure to do so would spell the end of Rome and the fall of the republic.
(08/30/16 10:00am)
Calvin and Hobbes used to be my favorite comic strip. To me, Bill Watterson’s most profound quote from the comic came through a conversation that the boy, Calvin had with his tiger, Hobbes, under a starry night sky. He said, “If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.”
(06/29/16 8:36am)
Three centuries ago, the European continent’s sovereign powers were divided after a hundred years of religious conflict, sectarianism and monumental political change that resulted in the chaotic Thirty Years’ War. The revolutionary allure of the Protestant Reformation and its challenge to the universality of the dominance of Roman Catholicism gave rise to a series of conflicts between feudal lords who adopted Protestantism and Catholic sovereigns who viewed the rebellion as heretical and, of course, against their own self-interest.
(06/08/16 1:08pm)
President Barack Obama, on December 10, 2009, accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway and boldly proclaimed, “We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor...those ideals by upholding them not when it’s easy, but when it is hard.” While he was referencing the necessity of upholding the Geneva Conventions during armed conflict, the same can undoubtedly be said about the irrefutable moral obligation to preserve, protect and defend the timeless precept of intellectual diversity and openness at institutions of higher learning. Most pertinently, ensuring that the unsustainable trend of fearing public expressions of divergent viewpoints finally comes to an end—especially within our new freshmen class—should be a priority for all students in order to prevent the rise of vapid ideological echo chambers.
