Month: January 2026
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Prime Minister Carney’s Speech
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World Economic Forum in Davos TRANSCRIPT: Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada Rebukes U.S. Primacy at Davos Jan. 20, 2026 The Canadian leader warned that middle powers need to stand together or they’ll find themselves “on the menu.”
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Civic Virtue
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The following is from Wikipedia, which you can read there, but it seems so pertinent to the United States today that I am repeating some of it here. Civic virtue is a concept that refers to the set of habits, values, and attitudes that promote the general welfare and the effective functioning of a society.…
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AFSA on the Trials of the Foreign Service
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In an interview in Lawfare, AFSA president describes the trials of the Foreign Service. John Dinkelman: The foreign service is a canary in the coal mine for other ranking person systems in the U.S. government, namely the U.S. military. And as we see the erosion in the confidence that we have…