President Trump's 2026 state banquet toast in Beijing echoes a philosophical tradition stretching back more than three centuries—a tradition that treats the exchange of knowledge and productive capacity between great civilizations as the true foundation of wealth and sovereignty.When President Trump invoked Samuel Shaw's...
Before Donald Trump, John F. Kennedy was the last president to celebrate the unique unity of politics and culture which emerged with the American Revolution. JFK launched the visionary Apollo project, unleashing scientific and technological optimism in an entire generation. But he understood that such...