The Dark Triad Comes to Washington Before proceeding, three definitions are useful. Narcissism means excessive grandiosity, entitlement, hunger for admiration, and a conviction that one is unusually important or exceptional. Machiavellianism means treating...
Donald Trump has once again discovered his favorite form of foreign policy: be suspicious of your allies and adoring about dictators. This week Trump ordered the Pentagon to substantially reduce U.S. participation in joint military exercises with South Korea, saying...
Testosterone, No-Nonsense, and Toughness Pete Hegseth has apparently solved the complicated problem of national defense. For decades, military planners worried about strategy, logistics, intelligence, training, technological superiority and competent leadership....
Trump Escapes in the Catering Truck Donald Trump has spent years constructing the image of a man so fearless that danger itself supposedly asks permission before approaching him. Then Iran apparently threatened Air Force One, and the Leader of the Free World...
On August 14, Trump said: “After we finish defeating Iran … pretty soon I’ll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States.” He had already claimed the U.S. had “total control” of the strait and suggested America might “keep it.” (CNN Transcripts)... 
