D.C. was sleepy this past week as Congress is not in session. But freshman Republican Reps. Warren Davidson and Anna Paulina Luna, of Ohio and Florida, came out swinging nonetheless last Friday with an essay “Toward a Realist American Grand Strategy.” Davidson and Luna are both veterans of the U.S. armed forces, but they base their appeal for realism and restraint on their understanding of American history and our geopolitical moment, rather than playing uniform identity politics.

In his column Tuesday, contributing editor Sohrab Ahmari argues that the whole American left has succumbed to an imperialism-as-emancipation theory of world history. American intervention abroad, they appear to believe, consciously or unconsciously, is the instrument of global liberation—recall that the neoconservatives were ex-leftists. Only this, Ahmari says, explains “the otherwise inexplicable absence of any measurable progressive dissent from relentless U.S. escalation in Ukraine, and from the way Washington has used the conflict to reassert total hegemony over Europe.”

And Peter W. Wood of the National Association of Scholars has reviewed a curious new work of “climate fiction,” written under a pseudonym by what, it is presumed, must be a prominent scientist. The political extremism in response to so-called global warming, according to the protagonist of Winter Games, is causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people by hypothermia. Human beings are far more vulnerable to the cold than we with our modern conveniences, and scientific breakthroughs are cognizant of. But with the move away from cheap and reliable energy sources we may be all about to be reminded.

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Micah Meadowcroft
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