Center for Strategic Communication

Binocular vision on the Trump phenom

by | Jul 19, 2016 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — why the support, why the avoidance ] . I thought it would be interesting to juxtapose these two quotes about Donald Trump. One comes from my friend Timothy Burke of Swarthmore and the Easily Distracted blog (upper panel, below) — Tim...

The Military Is Only Part of the Story

by | Jan 22, 2016 | Monitor

By Patricia Lee Sharpe For the most part, the Republicans (including Speaker of the House Paul Ryan) listened to the President’s State of the Union speech with stony faces. Many frowned throughout. During his quite eloquent remarks there were a number of points at...

Reminders, and other signs

by | Nov 22, 2015 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — the camps, theirs and ours, and nuking Mecca, with a pinch of Lynch ] . Here are the reminders.. ** These DoubleQuotes arose in the context of comments by Georgetown Syria specialist Marc Lynch, better known on the web as the blogger Abu...

Elite Failure and Populist Trump It

by | Aug 5, 2015 | Monitor

[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] GOP Front Runner, Donald J. Trump A friend sent an essay by the prolific IR scholar, Professor Angelo Codevilla that had been posted at Powerline Blog.  It was good. For the unfamiliar, Codevilla often writes on national...