First, Foreign policy encompasses a much larger policy area than trade. The reason I've chose trade as a proxy for foreign relations is that it is a telling signal for the relationship between two countries. What is revealed in these trade agreements in the future which these two countries intend to share. This has been... Continue Reading →

What precipitated this post more recently is a reaction to the "non-maskers". These are people who believe that wearing a mask in public is not only useless, but an infringement on their constitutional rights. However, this ideology, if I can call it that, is only the most recent symptom of a larger trend. What I... Continue Reading →