Texas is a highly diverse and urbanized state, but it's run by a bunch of would-be cowboys. How is this possible? Political scientist Clyde Barrow [1] has some answers. The Blob—the pejorative nickname for the foreign policy establishment—wants us to worry more about China than the climate crisis, and to see the withdrawal from Afghanistan as a disaster and not a welcome end to a bloody disaster. Foreign policy analyst Anatol Lieven [2] corrects those errors.

[1] https://webapps.utrgv.edu/aa/dm/index.cfm?action=profile&user=clyde.barrow

[2] https://quincyinst.org/author/alieven/