Mark Collins – Trump vs Trade: CPP Instead of TPP?

That’s the China-Pacific Partnership–a NY Times story on important talks with little public profile: China’s Influence Grows in Ashes of Trans-Pacific Trade Pact A toxic political war o…

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Mark Collins – The Donald, US Colleges–and History?

The inimitable George Will weighs in at the Washington Post–and Canadian campuses? Higher education is awash with hysteria. That might have helped elect Trump. Many undergraduates, their fawn…

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Mark Collins – Trump Transition: National Security/Foreign Policy

Leaks, rumour, speculation–at Foreign Policy: SitRep: Huge Changes in Trump NatSec Team; Pentagon Pick Likely This Week Big day. Tuesday [Nov. 15] was a quite a day in the transition effort o…

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Mark Collins – Donald Trump’s Victory, or, “America’s Emerging Nationalism Crisis”

Excerpts from an article by John Schindler of The XX Committee blog: …It would be wrong to impute huge numbers of down-market whites voting for Trump simply to racism, as many on the left pre…

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Mark Collins – Donald Trump, the People and Universal Suffrage Democracy–and Bertolt Brecht

Further to this post, Terry Glavin on Trump and Why: “God help us all” or… consider this: Letter: Brecht dissolves the electorate Neal Ascherson [a writer I rather like] writes: “After the Ea…

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Mark Collins – Trump’s Victory: Trump’s Implications for Canada: Defence, NAFTA, Keystone XL, Climate Change

Four tweets: 1) Defence: 2) NAFTA: 3) Keystone XL: 4) Climate change: Lots on the bilateral plate for our government and prime minister–and then there’s always softwood lumber, eh? Mark…

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Mark Collins: Terry Glavin on Trump and Why: “God help us all” or…

…the decline of the old media, especially newspapers, and the arrogant self-content of the greatest and goodest–excerpts: With Trump’s win, the Age of the Gargoyle has arrived In …

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Mark Collins – Der Untergang des Abendlandes, Trump v. Clinton Section

The Globe and Mail’s Margaret Wente puts matters most succinctly: …the world’s most powerful nation has become a laughingstock – overcome by groping scandals, e-mail leaks, and the anti…

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Mark Collins – Der Untergang des Abendlandes, Putin and “transgender bathroom rights” Section

At the end of an opinion piece at the Wall St. Journal: The Vladimir Putin Test The strongman’s appeal reveals a lot about today’s liberal democracies… Under President Obama, Angela Merkel, F…

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Mark Collins – Peak Growth: Great Economic Upsides in US and Western Europe–Once(ish) and Done?

The precursor to the considerations below was the original British Industrial Revolution. Two pieces on unique historical times of Peak Growth; how might that ever return? 1) Why Growth Will Fall T…

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