Interview with James Kurth about THE AMERICAN WAY OF EMPIRE

James Kurth talks about the influence of Samuel Huntington's CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS, briefing US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on China, why General Douglas MacArthur provided a model for dealing with Asia, how George Soros sponsored a chapter, and his upcoming book on the Coronavirus crisis, inspired by St. Agustine's CITY OF GOD.

James Kurth's THE AMERICAN WAY OF EMPIRE: How America Won a World--But Lost Her Way

Full disclosure: My company published this book last December. After fruitlessly waiting months for reviews in other media, I'm publishing one here myself, because I think it is an important study which deserves serious public discussion and debate as a worthy successor to Samuel Huntington's 1996 "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order."

Read the whole thing at https://thelatest.com/tlt/james-kurth-the-american-way-of-empire-how-america-won-world-but-lost-her-way-clash-of-civilizations-islamic-1581714474

The Burning of Notre Dame

 

As lightning illuminates a darkened landscape, the burning of Notre Dame exposes not a "Clash of Civilizations" but an existential struggle with what French philosophe Bernard Henry-Levi calls Islamo-Leftism, an "anti-American religion" opposed to the existence of Western Civilization itself.

Read the whole thing at TheLatest.com: https://thelatest.com/tlt/the-burning-notre-dame-paris-civilization-notre-dame--1555533817

Chairman Cole's Confession

ART FROM THE SWAMP: How Washington Bureaucrats Squander Millions on Awful Art (NY: Encounter Books, 2018)

Read the whole thing at TheLatest.com: https://thelatest.com/tlt/chairman-cole-confession-national-endowment-for-the-art-1549926859