My own contribution to the festivities came out from behind the paywall Monday. For the anniversary issue of the magazine, I reviewed Pat Buchanan’s Death of the West, also celebrating 20 years, and Scott McConnell’s Ex-Neocon, a 2016 collection of essays and missives. Recycling an old TAC piece title, I wrote that the magazine and its editors have been “Right from the Start.” The issues and dynamics explored by Buchanan and McConnell remain the issues and dynamics that define America today: immigration, foreign policy folly, a culture at war with its own foundations.

In an essay out yesterday, Philip Pilkington argued that the United States faces its own Suez crisis as it continues its halting pivot to Asia. The limits of our hold on and leadership of a global Western alliance are being highlighted by the conflict in Ukraine. If there will be conflict in the Pacific with China over Taiwan, we are likely to go at it largely alone. An isolated Britain floundered in the Mediterranean as it sought to keep its grip on the Suez, and never recovered its power or influence. Might we do the same?

And on Wednesday, TAC board member George D. O’Neill, Jr., compiled the many ways the American State Department contributed to making Ukraine a tinderbox. The foreign policy officials of the United States did not just create conditions for war by omission, ignoring the many respected voices in the international relations world that long warned Russia had interests in its own sphere. Their failures to maintain peace were of commission, too, actively expanding NATO and interfering in Russia’s near abroad, especially in Ukraine.

Best,
Micah Meadowcroft
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