Streit Council Board Member and Member of the European Parliament Domènec Ruiz Devesa urges the European Union to respond to crises with three unions

If the EU is to respond effectively to the crises it faces - including COVID-19, climate change, the departure of Britain, and shifts in US foreign policy - Domènec Ruiz Devesa argues it must form three unions: health, financial and political. (Watch here)

Streit Council Board Member John Davenport calls for an alliance of democracies to prevent future pandemics

In an article for Salon, Davenport argues for a broad alliance of democracies to form a pandemic prevention system. Such a system would be more cost effective than the fragmented and expensive response to COVID-19, and if it had been in place "COVID-19 might not have spread beyond the Wuhan area." What we need is not "less globalism," but "more global cooperation and governance that complement global trade and travel," he wrote. (Read More)

Streit Council Board Member Steve H. Hanke, with John Greenwood, on how the Federal Reserve should respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hanke and Greenwood, argue that the Federal Reserve should do more than reduce interest rates to mitigate the economic distress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. "In other words, the Fed needs to supply liquidity to deal with the panic - whether by quantitative-easing purchases of long bonds, by Treasury bill purchases, by repos or, most important, by increasing the amounts of U.S. dollar swaps available to the central banks of Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong," they argue. (Read More)

Streit Council Advisory Board Member Brendan Simms' New Book, Hitler: Only the World Was Enough, reexamines Adolf Hitler's Strategic Outlook  

Simms argues that his main preoccupation was not, as widely believed, the threat of Bolshevism and the Soviet Union, but that of international capitalism and Anglo-America. These two fears drove both his anti-Semitism and his determination to secure the “living space” necessary to survive in a world dominated by the British Empire and the United States. Hitler's aim was to create a similarly global future for Germany – a country seemingly doomed otherwise not just to irrelevance, but to extinction. His principal concern during the resulting cataclysm was not just what he saw as the clash between German and Jews, or between German and Slav, but above all that between Germans and what he called “Anglo-Saxons.”  (Read More)