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Trump’s Cuba Rollback Is Paving the Way for Age of “Principled Realism” in Foreign Policy

By: José Azel - Jun 26, 2017, 4:37 pm

American foreign policy has historically fluctuated between two competing approaches that transcend our left-right political spectrum. Political scientists label these schools of thought Idealism and Realism. Idealism holds that the purpose of…

government

Is Democracy Enough to Make a Government Legitimate?

By: José Azel - Jun 15, 2017, 12:13 pm

This is a trick question: What makes a government legitimate? Most of us will immediately reach out to the democratic…

Politics

You May Be Entitled to Your Opinion, But I Have the Right to Ignore It

By: José Azel - Jun 2, 2017, 3:10 pm

“You are not entitled to your opinion” is an incongruous opening for an opinion page column, but I hope to…

Politics

Politics

Globalism

Why the Left and Right Agree on Globalism More Than They Realize

By: José Azel - May 3, 2017, 1:01 pm

The cultural philosophy of a nation governs how the nation reacts to the challenges it faces. The political courses of…

U.S. Foreign Policy

Trump's Diplomacy: Putting National Interests Front and Center

By: José Azel - Apr 24, 2017, 12:10 pm

To some, diplomacy and Donald Trump is an oxymoron similar to “controlled chaos,” “open secret “or “organized mess.” Certainly, President…

Socialism

Socialism is the Opiate of the Highbrow Intellectual

By: José Azel - Apr 12, 2017, 3:57 pm

It was Karl Marx who despairingly characterized religion as “the opium of the people.” But it is the highbrows’ (or…