The Globalist

Reflections on the negotiating style of the United States.

When the world’s dominant culture exalts war, it is no wonder there is so much of it.

Apple, Google, Facebook et al.’s prolonged tax cheating further hollows out the already shaky support for globalization.

Senior Obama administration officials were aware from 2012 that a war to overthrow Assad would inevitably become a sectarian bloodbath.

Six points about the EU’s Apple tax ruling.

Reflections on the emerging totalitarian form of Islamic democracy.

Examining the perfectly closed loops of circular Islamist thinking.

The 1888 Great Debate over US trade policy inspired literary luminaries like Walt Whitman and Mark Twain to take sides.

How the 1888 elections decided the protectionist course of U.S. economic expansion for decades to come.

Is Silicon Valley the 21st century American equivalent of the inferno/purgatory? Or of paradise?