The US President Donald Trump has tied himself and onlookers in knots by his alternating encomiums and diatribes against China over Covid-19 in the recent weeks. Only he can cut the Gordian knot and that he will be in a position to do only after November when the US presidential election gets over. There could…
After Pearl Harbor, FDR declared that his role of “Dr. New Deal” had been superseded, replaced by his new role, “Dr. Win the War.” Tuesday, President Donald Trump signaled that, in the war on the coronavirus pandemic, he, too, is executing a strategic pivot. Where the medical crisis had been the central front, pulling the…
This is essentially a short history of the 20th century from the point of view of HBD realism and the maxim that “population is power.” This century turned out to be an “American Century.” But it wasn’t obvious that it was going to be that way – while the United States was almost predestined to…
US President Donald Trump has tied himself and onlookers in knots by his alternating speeches for and diatribes against China over Covid-19 in recent weeks. Only he can cut the Gordian knot, and he will be in a position to do so only after November when the US presidential election is over. There could be…
The world has rarely, if ever, seen anything like this Covid-19 crisis. Consequently there are few signposts for how to deal with it. But we are still human beings, and on that basis alone, there are certain things we know. Trump is dealing with it by trying to hold back money due to the WHO,…
There’s been a lot of speculation that the US might be preparing to dump India over its atrocious treatment of minorities after the official White House Twitter account stopped following several Indian government ones including Prime Minister Modi’s and the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom recommended blacklisting the South Asian state, but that…
