Commentary When it comes to the creation of powerful platforms, China is best known for TikTok, a highly problematic app that stands accused of being a Trojan horse for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). But WeChat is China’s most sophisticated creation, by far. In many ways, WeChat is a super-app. With over 1 billion users,…
My First Engagement With the Enemy
Commentary I don’t always know what will trigger a flashback of my deployment to Afghanistan, but today, it happened to be the song at the end of the 2020 Mulan movie titled, “Loyal Brave True” by Christina Aguilera. As cheesy as that might sound, hear me out. FLASHBACK: When one of the grunts shouted out…
WHO Pandemic Treaty Is a Threat to Liberty
Commentary Critics of a proposed pandemic treaty say it would cede U.S. autonomy to the China-led World Health Organization (WHO). Mainstream media say it would not. Since February 2022, WHO members have been working on a pandemic response accord that would exist under the Constitution of the World Health Organization. The draft accord will be…
The Paper of Record Fronts for the Deep State
Commentary There was hardly time in the day but I simply could not pull myself away from the discussion between Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., yesterday on Twitter Spaces. I was there mid-afternoon with nearly 70 thousand others listening to a live conversation on every topic from foreign policy to economics to civil…
Michael Zwaagstra: One-Size-Fits-All Approaches Don’t Benefit All Students
Commentary It’s a longstanding debate in education. Should schools strive to keep all students, regardless of academic ability, together in the same classroom? Some educators argue that students learn best when placed with others at the same ability level. This is called “streaming” where courses are divided into categories such as “academic” and “applied” and…
Beyond Assessing the Chinese Military: Seeking Answers to the China Threat Question
Commentary Having conducted over 2,000 aerial incursions into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) since August 2000 and two simulated air-sea strikes on Taiwan and now Japan this year, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has clearly signaled his aggressive intentions. It is time to take his threats seriously and prepare accordingly. The key is to make…
As US and China Spar, Western CEOs ‘Love the CCP’
June 6, 2023
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Commentary At an annual security conference in Singapore on June 4, China’s defense minister accused the United States of being a hegemonic power. Given all the trouble Washington is experiencing over Taiwan and Ukraine, clearly, we are not. U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was also at the conference. He sat at the same dinner…
The Boys of America Are Suffering—How Can We Help Them?
Commentary Contrary to popular belief, the patriarchy doesn’t rule with an iron fist. Nevertheless, for some perverse reason, the myth of male privilege still persists. Today, only a fool could look around and honestly say that we live in a man’s world. Every 13.7 minutes, somewhere in the United States, a man takes his own…
The Supreme Court’s New Decision on ‘Taking Property’
Commentary In the next few weeks, the Supreme Court will be finishing up its October Term. The term gets its name from the fact that it begins Oct. 1. The next few columns will unpack some of the court’s most important decisions. I will be focusing mostly (although not entirely) on cases interpreting the Constitution…
Queensland’s Treaty Bill Puts Impotence of Liberal-Nationals on Full Display
Commentary In May, with the support of the opposition and the Greens, the Queensland Parliament adopted the Path to Treaty Act 2023. Although Australian papers and opinion pages are saturated with stories about “The Voice” and First Nations’ claims to sovereignty, there has been little discussion of this potentially divisive Queensland legislation. Unsurprisingly, the long-serving…
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