Curt Mills

2 months ago | theamericanconservative.com | Sumantra Maitra |Curt Mills

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... It is a difficult time for those of us who wanted a moment where institutionalism and credentialism were torn down in favor of genuine scholarship, erudition, and expertise that exists outside the confines of an ideological academia. The proximate cause: a recent appearance of British writer Douglas Murray on Joe Rogan’s podcast. Murray is a raging neoconservative who has been proselytizing since the George W. Bush administration.

2 months ago | politico.com | Curt Mills

The most dramatic of tariffs are paused for now, but a different trade war is already underway — the battle to use the tariff debate as a springboard to the GOP presidential nomination in 2028. Consider Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. “I worry, there are voices within the administration that want to see these tariffs continue forever and ever,” Cruz said recently on his podcast.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Curt Mills

The most dramatic of tariffs are paused for now, but a different trade war is already underway — the battle to use the tariff debate as a springboard to the GOP presidential nomination in 2028. Consider Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. “I worry, there are voices within the administration that want to see these tariffs continue forever and ever,” Cruz said recently on his podcast.

2 months ago | theamericanconservative.com | Curt Mills

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... “Everything is possible with Donald Trump,” one State Department source familiar with the hiring told The American Conservative. This person was speaking of the shock retention of Darren Beattie as the acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs.

Mar 4, 2025 | stonezone.com | Curt Mills

Victoria Nuland resigned from the State Department in March 2024, a year ago. Over her career, Nuland built a reputation as a hawk of hawks, having worked as an aide to Vice President Dick Cheney and as spokeswoman for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Even before her tenure as President Joe Biden’s undersecretary of state for political affairs, Nuland was widely seen as an avatar of the United States’ post–Cold War tendency to spend billions intervening in remote foreign conflicts.