American intelligence agencies, like those across the world, are unprofessional and produce little of value. The post Intelligence Amateurism appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Intelligence Amateurism American intelligence agencies, like those across the world, are unprofessional and produce little of value. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) The intelligence communities of all nations are marked by amateur blunders, misadventures, or clownishness yielding nothing of intelligence value. China’s spying on the United States is exemplary. A front page story in the May 11, 2026 issue of the New York Times disclosed a Chinese overture to pay modest sums to a staff member of the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party to share information or conjectures commonplace among reporters or scholars in the field. Among other things,…Open
Dead-end party loyalty is no answer to impractical oppositionism. The post Massie’s Dilemma—and Ours appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics Massie’s Dilemma—and Ours Dead-end party loyalty is no answer to impractical oppositionism. (Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images) Daniel McCarthy—The American Conservative’s own former editor and current board member, current editor of ISI’s occasional publication Modern Age, and also now something to do with the Heritage Foundation—has decided that Thomas Massie had it coming. He feels so strongly about it that he has written his thoughts at length in two separate publications, the Spectator and Compact . The nub of the argument is that Massie was insufficiently imbued with partisan spirit: In his opposition to the administration’s foreign policy and his efforts to publicize the Epstein files, he antagonized Trump, who…Open
U.S. sailors and Japanese service members remembered American prisoners of war and Japanese laborers who died building the Soto Dam during World War II.
Hawaii Legislature must approve $118,000 payment to Babylon Bee, activist who blocked ban on "materially deceptive" election content. Tennessee county pays $835,000 to ex-cop jailed for meme response to Charlie Kirk's assassination.