Here's why Trump's suggestion that Iran could join the Abraham Accords reflects a foreign policy of real physical economics — and why the CFR's new "Future of American Strategy" project is a tacit admission that the British-led liberal international order is finished.
Trump got Xi's "secret garden" tour, Bessent cornered the City of London, and the Senate revolted in his favor. Across this week's shows, one frame keeps surfacing: the American System is back, and the empire is out of moves.
As globalization collapses, America faces a deeper crisis of culture, identity, and purpose. Mike explores Poe’s “Descent into the Maelstrom,” the rebuilding of American industry, the conflict with Iran, and the spiritual foundations needed to revive the nation.
Uncover McKinley's forgotten legacy: champion of tariffs, labor, and American ideals. He challenged British dominance, defended civil rights, and upheld Revolutionary principles.
Due largely to President Donald Trump's praise for McKinley's tariff policy, as well as Trump's restoring McKinley's name to our nation's highest peak, he is once again being discussed.
Probably not very much.
It is as if he was erased from our nation's collective memory on the day he was assassinated by a British agent.
Yet he is a total mystery to most Americans.
His 1890 McKinley Tariff was the highest in the nation's history, and he accomplished the creation of a productive economic powerhouse in America, the likes of which had never been seen before.
From 1897 to 1901, President William McKinley waged a relentless war to break the financial and geopolitical power of the British Empire and to assert the Principles of the American Revolution as the basis for relations in world affairs.
And through his policy of "reciprocity" he fought to secure a world of sovereign nations, working together to secure a future of peace and economic prosperity. McKinley's actions threatened to end British imperial domination, and for this he was assassinated.
In a speech in 1891, he declared:
"PRINCIPLES MUST ALWAYS LEAD; they are the advance guard of right thought and action. . . . The Declaration of Independence, which sounded the voice of liberty to all mankind, was in advance of the thought of the great body of the people. . . . It took a hundred years of National life and National thought and earnest agitation, and at last wasting war, to place this Government where the Declaration of Independence anchored it. . . ."
McKinley was a hero, one of our greatest Presidents, perhaps the greatest after Washington and Lincoln.
McKinley's principles and his policies light the way, as we seek to accomplish a new American Revolution.
The centuries-long fight over tuning, the British- and Wall Street-funded "American sound" that hollowed out our culture, and why the renaissance Trump is unleashing has to start with classical music.
Victor Glover's Easter message from lunar orbit has a 600-year lineage. Bob Ingraham traces the unity of Christian faith and scientific breakthrough from Dufay and Josquin to Brunelleschi, van der Weyden, and the carracks that opened the New World.
Trace the deliberate cultural campaign that forged the intellectual foundations of the American Revolution: from Leibniz and Swift to Handel and Benjamin West.
Will Wertz traces the millennia-long battle between national sovereignty and empire — from Plato to Nicholas of Cusa to the EU — and shows why a new Bretton Woods system is the path forward.
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