Modern Age

Mar 21, 2024 | isi.org | Michael Anton |Elbridge Colby |Daniel McCarthy |Michael Dougherty

Much of contemporary foreign policy focuses on frivolous details of international relations without a view to long-term strategy, the art of statesmanship, or philosophic principles. As such, this leaves America’s foreign policy distracted, needlessly at odds with other nations, at odds with our own interests, and without a strong sense of direction. Most importantly, it gives our leadership class impetus to be irresponsible in its pursuits.

Jan 22, 2024 | isi.org | Noah Millman

“What makes a woman?”  This question isn’t precisely the one that has been agitating American society of late. When in her nomination hearings Senator Marsha Blackburn wanted to put now-Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on the spot, she asked her for a “definition” of a woman, a question that, in a legal context, might have different answers in different contexts.

Dec 18, 2023 | isi.org | Johnny Burtka |Elbridge Colby

Elbridge A. Colby served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development, in which capacity he was responsible for defense strategy, force development, and strategic analysis for OSD Policy.

Dec 11, 2023 | isi.org | Austin Ruse

Against the Great Reset: Eighteen Theses Contra the New World OrderEdited by Michael Walsh(Bombardier Books, 2022)In my single days, I hung out most evenings in certain Upper West Side saloons, smoking cigarettes, drinking scotch, and reading. Such evenings were nearly heaven for me. That is until someone intruded upon my reverie and asked me to move down. “Can you move down so my wife and I can sit together?”“Sure, no problem.”Back to smoking, drinking, reading.

Dec 4, 2023 | isi.org | Chilton Williamson

Climate is the dominating and definitive issue of our time, a compound of acutely emotional considerations concerning science, politics, society, culture, anthropology, and religion, the breadth and complexity of which has yet to be recognized comprehensively. In the late ’70s and early ’80s, a fresh movement on behalf of “wilderness” was growing and coalescing, chiefly in the Rocky Mountain West.