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2018 is already shaping up to be a difficult year for the European Union. While Brexit machinations dominate the headlines, the biggest threat to the EU comes at a far more fundamental level. In several of the union’s eastern member…
Each era seems to have the drugs that it deserves. In the 1960s, there was LSD. Inspiring euphoric fantasies or vivid paranoia, it could not have been an apter drug for years of utopian social progressivism and long, debilitating foreign…
This winter, I went back to the woods. The backwoods. My homeland is Central Pennsylvania, and I returned there to celebrate Christmas with the family and to help out with the coal furnace during the bleakest time of year (more…
Words matter more than actions, which is why Aristotle defined virtue as “habitual action.” Yet modern politics has reversed the Athenian conventional wisdom regarding “sticks and stones” and “cheap talk.” One of the traits of effective American leaders, argues the…
On his path to the White House, Donald Trump made transforming the way the US does trade with the world one of his biggest policy priorities. But in his first State of the Union address, he had remarkably little to…
A state-of-the-art hotel in the resort town of Hakone, Japan, effectively brings together traditional furnishings and Nissan technology for guests’ maximum comfort. At first glance, the ProPILOT Park Ryokan may look like any other traditional Japanese inn where guests are expected…
