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.
We've Done It Before! Unleashing a Manufacturing Renaissance
The author, Susan Kokinda, hosts our Wednesday Political Briefing, the Midweek Update, and was recently elected as Coalitions Vice Chair of the Michigan GOP.
Dominic Cummings, a British political figure and blogger, recently reported that the book, Freedom’s Forge, written by Arthur Herman, is being “read by many involved in the White House/DOGE project.”
Dominic Cummings
Freedom’s Forge, written by Arthur Herman, is being “read by many involved in the White House/DOGE project.”
Freedom’s Forge brings alive the industrial mobilization which transformed the United States into the Arsenal of Democracy in the 1940’s, and ensured the ultimate Allied victory over fascism.
Cummings says that the book is being used as a resource by a new entrepreneurial elite seeking,
“to apply lessons from the golden age of American manufacturing and industrial capacity at speed and scale, in civilian and military spheres.”
Herman’s book, which focuses on the role of two pivotal figures, William Knudsen, a machine tool genius who headed FDR’s war production mobilization, and Henry Kaiser who performed miracles in shipbuilding, vividly captures the American System spirit of innovation and industrial production. Lyndon LaRouche called it the “machine tool principle.”
On a personal note, I will add that this book is one of my favorites. Not only does Herman do a masterful job of research and writing, but this story holds a special place in my heart.
My parents met building B-24 Liberator bombers at the Willow Run bomber plant in Ypsilanti, MI—perhaps the most iconic symbol of the war production mobilization.
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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