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Apr 19, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Jeffrey Gedmin |Richard Aldous
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Jeffrey Gedmin |David Skinner
Tomorrow, April 20, is National Record Store Day, a day of promotions, special releases, in-store appearances, and much else in the way of organized hoopla for music sold over the counter. It is best observed with an actual purchase at your local record store—mine is Crooked Beats in Alexandria, Virginia. But National Record Store Day can also be a time of reflection.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Jeffrey Gedmin |Paul DeRosa
The Race to Zero: How ESG Investing Will Crater the Global Financial Systemby Paul H. Tice (Encounter Books, 328 pp., $27.29)Environmental, social, and governance investing (ESG) as Paul Tice describes it is “liberal progressive politics masquerading as finance.” With his book The Race To Zero, he is sounding the alarm: There is more than one “zero” in play. Environmentalists are thinking zero carbon emissions, but are they leading the world toward zero GDP?
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Jeffrey Gedmin |Josef Joffe
Six weeks before Iran’s missile assault on Israel, Joe Biden served up pie in the sky in his State of the Union Address: “two states” for Israel and Palestine as the “only real solution.” In response, Republican Senator Mario Rubio quipped that the President had actually meant Michigan and Minnesota, “the two states [he] is trying to solve for the elections in November.” The tortured sarcasm is not off the mark. Domestic politics beats foreign policy when the presidential race is on.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Jeffrey Gedmin
At the end of last week, the president of Turkmenistan, Serdar Berdimuhamedov, extended warm wishes to Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi for Eid al-Fitr, the celebration that marks the end of the month-long, dawn-to-sunset fasting of Ramadan. Turkmenistan’s leader stressed the importance of tranquility, compassion, and moral integrity. The Iranian regime marked the occasion by raining down missiles and drones on Israel.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Jeffrey Gedmin
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Jeffrey Gedmin |Petr Fiala
We live in an era that seems to be defined increasingly by confrontation, conflict and crises. One problem after another seems to pile on. If we step back, it’s not hard to see that Russia’s war on Ukraine, the war in the Middle East and China’s growing ambition are part of larger global struggle liberal democracies will face in the near-term. In times like these, it’s urgent that we foster serious and ever deepening collaboration among like-minded nations allies.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Jeffrey Gedmin |Thomas Koenig
The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Unionby Stephen Puleo (MacMillan, 464 pp., $32)Charles Sumner is often remembered as the senator who was viciously caned–and beaten unconscious–on the floor of the U.S. Senate for his anti-slavery views in the years leading up to the Civil War.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Natalie Gonnella-Platts |Jeffrey Gedmin |Alexis Ludwig
Political campaigns are not rocket science–but in our current electoral season, we've seen more circus clown antics than academic argument. This phenomenon has me rethinking what I thought I had learned by observing some of the world’s most fragile democracies as a career diplomat—that American democracy was uniquely resilient and those who uphold it deeply committed to its tenets and principles. The other possibility is simply that I learned the wrong thing.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Natalie Gonnella-Platts |Jeffrey Gedmin |Alexander Lukashuk
Two and a half years after losing the presidential election to Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Belarus’ strongman Alexander Lukashenko is still finding new enemies to punish for the political scare he received in August 2020. Late last month, former Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist Ihar Karnei was sentenced to three years in prison and given a hefty fine for “participation in an extremist organization”—the Belarusian Association of Journalists.
