Category: Opinion

AI + ICBM + Nukes = What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
by Robert Rudney | Sep 14, 2026 | AI, OpinionWhile we leverage AI [Artificial Intelligence] and ML [Machine Learning] to expand decision space for senior leaders, we also remain committed to ensuring that these capabilities will not replace the human decision-making critical to advising and executing Presidential directives regarding the use of nuclear weapons. —Adm Richard Correll, Commander USSTRATCOM, Testimony to House Armed Services […]

The Roberts Court Has Turned the Voting Rights Act on Its Head
by Leslie J. Winner | May 19, 2026 | OpinionI am the North Carolina lawyer who served as lead counsel for the Black citizens whose lawsuit led to the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Thornburg v. Gingles. That case gave life to Congress’s 1982 amendments to the Voting Rights Act. Those amendments were born from a simple reality that every voting rights lawyer understood: […]

From Reality TV to Performance Politics: How Distraction Becomes Doctrine
by Van Abbott | Jan 12, 2026 | OpinionThe United States is once again projecting power abroad, not out of necessity, but for performance. Under Donald Trump, foreign policy has come to resemble a stage production, with conflict as backdrop and spectacle substituting for strategy. The language of national security persists, but recent actions appear driven more by politics than policy. Trump’s outward […]

Shaping the Narrative
by Hamilton Fish | Mar 6, 2024 | OpinionThere is an alchemy to the way information finds its way into the discourse, it’s unpredictable and difficult to steer. But during these last several weeks, we’ve seen how a small and independent voice can have an outsized impact. Jonathan Winer last wrote for the Spectator on both the unlikely rise and exaggerated demise of the Independent State Legislature (ISL) doctrine, […]

Editor’s Note
by Hamilton Fish | Dec 28, 2023 | OpinionWe posted a flurry of notable stories this month, and I thought the holiday break would be a good time to give you a sense of why we chose some of the subjects we covered and provide more background on the remarkable writers who have contributed their thoughts and findings to these pages. We’ve been […]
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