A look at what the coming week will bring — and a list of recommended RANE articles from the week that was…
Previewing France’s Legislative Election
The coalition behind President Emmanuel Macron is expected to remain the main force in the French National Assembly in upcoming legislative elections, but on the off chance a far-left coalition takes control, it would challenge Macron’s ability to implement reforms at home and weaken his influence abroad.
Communism Still Haunts Russia
Putin’s tyranny followed organically from the decade of anarchy kicked off by the Soviet collapse.
NCLA Celebrates Five Years of Protecting Civil Liberties Against the Administrative State
Japan’s Return to History?
Thoughts in and around geopolitics. After World War II, the United States wrote a constitution for Japan that stated, in Article 9, that Japan would not maintain a military in the future.
America’s Interests in Ukraine
Nearly every time Russia has been invaded, it has been saved by its strategic depth. Russia can’t truly be defeated without first taking Moscow, and it is a long way to Moscow.
In the Beginning: The Mont Pelerin Society, 1947
Seventy-five years ago, there occurred an important event in the post–World War II revival of free-market liberal ideas. Over the first ten days of April 1947, 39 people from Europe and the United States met in a hotel in Switzerland at a mountain place known as Mont Pelerin. They came together to discuss the future of economic, social, and political liberty in the face of the rise and growing influence of collectivist ideas, especially in the various forms of government central planning. …
Why I Disagree With Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger recently spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he made two significant statements.
