Conservative Student Toolbox: Hammer

Yesterday, the ISI provided us with some good pulling grease (a subscription to National Review) for our toolbox. Tuesday, we started our toolbox with a receptacle analyzer (The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis). Today we add a hammer, not least because I recall using an actual hammer very often in college to try and fix things with force (so seriously bring one to college). For our Toolbox, our hammer is a famous paper written by my all-time favorite international relations scholar, Charles Krauthammer.

It's called: "Democratic Realism: An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World."

If you plan to take an international affairs / relations course, or if you want to be armed with cogent arguments to defend the United States' liberation of Iraq and Afghanistan, you'll want to read this piece closely. Liberal professors have been often seperated from reality in their own little reclusive academic world for so long that they expound crazy theories of how the world works that make so little sense that it's sometimes hard to rebuke them. (Such claims as: countries aren't important anymore, or terrorists are the product of an implicit psychological warfare from western prosperity). Krauthammer gives you a hammer to fix this situation in the classroom.

By understanding this paper, you'll be more effective saving yourself and your classmates from starting to believe liberal mumbo-jumbo in international affairs.