Tribune Content Agency Opinions

Nuclear hubris

One thing that becomes clear to me when I wander into the world, and the minds, of geopolitical professionals -- government people -- is how limited and linear their thinking seems to be.

When I do so, an internal distress signal starts beeping and won't stop, especially when the issue under discussion is war and mass destruction, i.e., suicide by nukes, which has a freshly intense relevance these days as Team Trump plays war with Iran.

The question for me goes well beyond democracy -- the right of the public to have a say in what "we" do as a nation -- and penetrates the

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Tribune Content Agency Opinions

Tribune Content Agency Opinions3 min read
Jonah Goldberg: What Happened To The Republican War On ‘Woke’ — And What We Should Have Learned From It
This isn’t going to be more musing about whether America has reached “peak woke.” But that is part of the story. So let’s start there. About a decade ago, many on the left embraced the word “woke,” a term with roots in African American culture and ac
Tribune Content Agency Opinions3 min read
Cal Thomas: Demeaning, Diminishing, Destroying
If history proves anything it shows if civil rights, human rights, equality and even the right to live are to be denied to a class of people, they must first be stripped of their inherent value as human beings. In the case of African Americans, it wa
Tribune Content Agency Opinions3 min read
Cal Thomas: Lessons From Other Campus Protests
The year was 1966 and Ronald Reagan was running for governor of California. A major part of his platform was to “clean up the mess at Berkeley” and other college campuses throughout the state that were experiencing protests and strikes over issues th

Related Books & Audiobooks