If you’ve recently taken a gander at the liberal foreign policy tomes, attended any think tank panels on America’s supposed decline, or read the prolific output of today’s fashionable foreign affairs ...

US President Donald Trump spent much of 2025 doing up the White House with gold bling. He’s the latest in a long line of leaders to use buildings for power.

In my last blog post, I explained the difference between power and influence as they’re classically defined in business and organizational psychology, and I made the case that even though the words ...

"Love does not dominate; it cultivates" is a quote attributed to the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Perhaps in an ideal world, love would never dominate. But in reality, romantic ...