Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
China’s elite worldview isn’t built on crude racial hierarchy like 20th-century Europe. It’s older, subtler, and in many ways more dangerous. It doesn’t scream superiority. It assumes it.
When Americans think about Iran, the story usually begins in 1979—angry crowds, burning flags, and a stern cleric named Ayatollah Khomeini taking control of the country. But that snapshot hides something important. Iran—historically Persia—is one of the world’s oldest civilizations. Its history stretches back thousands of years, and the country that emerged after 1979 is not the inevitable outcome of Persian history. In many ways, it was a political accident born from revolution, miscalculation, and a brutal consolidation of power.
We will never see true democracy or Western civilization in the Muslim Middle East, and we should not be naïve enough to waste our money and our blood on trying to push it. Iraq and Afghanistan are abject lessons in this.