Throughout history, there has never been any such thing as a balance of power. Instead, there is always an imbalance of power. www.cnbc.com/video/2026/0...

It was my huge honor to MC the NY Strong gala with my dear friend Rabbi Shmuel A. Metzger on Tuesday night. Here's to a world of love, truth, inclusion, peace and light. nycstronggala.com "From strength to strength" M'chayil el chayil מֵחַיִל אֶל־חָ֑יִל

What should the U.S. do on Greenland? Nothing. My appearance on Bloomberg today.👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8Gr...

Unfortunately, you can explain Venezuela's economic failure, over the last decade or so, with reference to a single number. Eight. bit.ly/4jC41bu

Americans don’t know how much of our strength is based not on breaking but following global rules. After all, we set those rules. My piece in Barron's today with many thanks to Matthew Peterson. www.barrons.com/articles/mad...

The Venezuelan operation introduces a net calculation in Great Power affairs. The benefit of using raw U.S. power, on the one hand, versus the cost of other nations trying to copy our example, on the other. On Bloomberg just now with Paul Sweeney and Scarlet Fu.

Just appeared on India Today to offer my commentary on the U.S. operation in Venezuela. x.com/IndiaToday/s...

To start the new year, my first article in National Review 👇 www.nationalreview.com/2026/01/an-e...

Some geopolitics to end the year (but hopefully not the the world) on Bloomberg

Thank you to Vonnie Quinn and Carol Massar for ending 2025 strong with me on Bloomberg Business just now!

Confucius wrote: “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”

I don't understand people who don't fastidiously study the world. We all live here. It's like buying a house and paying no mind to its plumbing, gas works, electrics, drive way or walls.

In history there has been one simple difference between those who can or do become evil and those who cannot or don't. The ones who are capable of evil build a complex system of ethics around the sorts of things they must do. The others build ethics on what they must not.

Clever ≠ smart. Clever = good insight. Smart = good play. The juice is the relationship between insight and play. That's clever + smart.

The elusiveness of the best theory is the best theory.

West's 3 problems rn irl ngl LIBERTY How to stay free while free institutions are used to attack freedom? WEALTH How to make wealth while commerce enriches adversaries? WAR How to avoid war while both too much and too little deterrence has preceded war?

What happens when you cut soft power and use hard power? You get less of both. I explained why on Bloomberg yesterday👇 youtu.be/CEnDSpC-MNQ

“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.” Richard Feynman (1918-1988)

Every dawn's a Waterloo; every dusk Wellington or Bonaparte.

History is odd. In the first Russo-German war, France sided with Russia and won. In the second Russo-German war, France sided with Russia and lost (then won). If there is a third, win or lose, France will side with Germany.

Everyone designs their life like an artist paints. Some prefer bold lines. Some prefer abstractions. Some prefer realism. Others romanticism. This is a good thing. Trouble only comes when folks try to understand a Mucha as they would a Pollock or a Turner or a Bosch.

Tonight's sketching

If Scipio wept at Carthage, ought McArthur to have wept at Tokyo?

The main preoccupation of human behavior is trying to cope with human behavior.

The outcomes of any given life, ranked: 1. Do good and feel good (Epicurus vibes, made it)🥳 2. Do good but feel bad (Batman at 3am, prosocial pain)🦇 3. Do bad and feel bad (Saul vibes, there's a way forward)🧳 4. Feel good because do bad (Eichmann vibes, no redemption)💀

This quote always comes to mind. "The harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." Coleman Cox (Often misattributed to one T. Jefferson).

I'm back and mindful of one big lesson from Japan! youtu.be/mQsGyEIey90

Atrophy or a trophy, there's nothing in-between.

Stewart Lee is now so good at being Stewart Lee that he's better than Stewart Lee. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYNv...

Discussed the global economy (and how global it is) on CNBC www.cnbc.com/video/2025/1...

Was upside down jet-lagged after a month in Japan, but jumped on Bloomberg and pointed to the obvious: Ukraine isn't going to get what it needs from this White House.

"The answer to hate is not hate." Erika Kirk Amen. And she forgives her husband's killer. What a beautiful and powerful thing to do for the entire nation.

The blue collar of the Democratic Party has slowly faded, until, at best, it is now an off-white denim color. Meanwhile, the white collar of the Republican party got darker and darker: today it is a navy hue.

What the country needs is not the second American revolution, of right or left, but the first American restoration, a bloodless return to our principles.

Gonna write, now and again, here too 👇 open.substack.com/pub/edwardsp...

Our society is suffering because of a simple, single error. We have not distinguished between the fact of an utterance and an utterance itself as a fact. The former are always true. The latter, not. Thus, lies are reported as a duty by those and for those who want the truth.

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” Lincoln

Unacceptable and gross to shoot someone while they speak in public. Sick to my stomach.

The opposite of a failed axiom is neither necessarily nor more likely true and assuming so is itself a failed axiom.

The only time you truly understand an idea is when you understand it well enough that it might have been yours Then you have the sensation of it being correct, even if it's wrong Thus Aristotle: the mark of an educated mind is to entertain an idea without necessarily accepting it

Trouble is, if you move fast and break things and the thing you break is the thing in which you are moving fast, you've stopped moving, fast or otherwise, and are just breaking things.

In the 21st century, America can be either a second Athens (soft power options and trade) or a second Sparta (more hard power and low domestic consumption).

Jumped on Global Pulse and reminded the world of that time I got inflation dead right and a hard landing dead wrong. Gotta keep it honest folks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBRg...

If forced to choose between a world with more presidential power and no friends, or a world with friends and a normal presidency, we should not hesitate to choose the latter.

My life's work might be described as thinking twice about what's in the news, sometimes even three times. Alas, it appears some folks don't think about it once.