Category: The Wide Angle
The Wide Angle: The Future Belongs to Surrealists
by Dave Troy | Jun 29, 2024 | Election 2024, The Wide AngleAs we head into the pithy core of the 2024 election season, institutionalists are alarmed, and with good reason. Our highest court just ruled (SEC vs. Jarkesy; overturning Chevron doctrine) that all federal agencies are effectively unconstitutional, and may imminently rule that former president Trump is immune from prosecution. The first presidential debate of 2024 […]
The Wide Angle: Trump’s Peace Plan? Nuclear Blackmail.
by Dave Troy | Apr 30, 2024 | Foreign Policy, The Wide AngleA little-remembered magazine interview from 1987 may hold clues about what Trump and Putin are ultimately up to. What was on Trump’s mind back then — besides dispensing unsolicited foreign policy advice in full page newspaper ads? Nothing less than making a deal with the Soviets to jointly seize the world’s nuclear weapons and thus […]
The Wide Angle: Is a UFO Hoax a Ticking Time-bomb for Biden?
by Dave Troy | Feb 27, 2024 | The Wide AngleIs there life elsewhere in the universe? Statistically, it’s likely. But don’t count on the tightly-knit band of UFO activists who have monopolized the subject to be the ones to deliver the news. For decades, a highly entrepreneurial group of researchers, scientists, and journalists has been at the center of the movement to “disclose” the […]
The Wide Angle: Washington Has Lost the Plot
by Dave Troy | Dec 18, 2023 | National Security, The Wide AngleOfficial Washington has lost the plot, and I’ve never been more frightened for the future of America. No, I’m not talking about the fear of losing our democracy to authoritarian theocrats, though that remains a constant existential threat. I’m concerned that the pro-democracy “good guys” have settled into a debilitating groupthink. To use the Rumsfeldian […]
The Wide Angle: Reality in Taiwan Differs from Perception in DC
by Dave Troy | Nov 9, 2023 | Foreign Policy, The Wide AngleIt has become an article of faith in Washington circles that conflict between China and Taiwan is a palpably real near-term concern. Most recently this idea has been given new life because funding for Taiwan is baked into the Biden administration’s massive $105 billion aid bill for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan — even though the […]