Joshua Treviño

Professors and protest.

When the news came that President George W. Bush will speak at Furman University’s Commencement on May 31st, I was immensely pleased. I am an alumnus of the Class of 1997, and though I’m not as active as some of my peers — as Furman’s alumni giving department might attest — I do retain enduring [...]

Fear and loathing at CFIUS.

This is an extended version of this piece, which originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal Asia on April 28th, 2008. Japan isn’t the only place flexing its regulatory oversight of foreigners these days. Now, the U.S Treasury Department wants to look at transactions involving stakes of less than 10% of the acquired American company. But before [...]

Trevino Podcast Ten: Rep. Thaddeus McCotter on the Papal Visit

In this edition of the Trevino podcast, I have a conversation with Representative Thaddeus McCotter, Republican from Michigan’s 11th Congressional District. Rep. McCotter sponsored the Congressional resolution welcoming Pope Benedict XVI to the United States, and he is a strong voice for Catholic engagement in the American public square. In this discussion, the Congressman [...]

Trevino Podcast Nine: Mary Kissel of the Wall Street Journal Asia

In this edition of the Treviño podcast, I speak with Mary Kissel, Editor of the Editorial Page at the Wall Street Journal Asia. From her post in Hong Kong, Mary discusses the role of Western media in China, the controversy surrounding the Beijing Olympics, the right way to constructively engage the Chinese, and much [...]

Trevino Podcast Eight: On Jerry Hughes’s Straight Talk

In this edition of the Treviño podcast, I appear on Jerry Hughes’s Straight Talk radio show in my capacity as Senior Editor of the Heartland Institute’s Information Technology and Telecom Newsletter. We discuss the future of the internet, why government at all levels is yearning to tax it, and how net neutrality and municipal [...]

On (not) leaving wireless alone.

Nearly everyone has heard Aesop’s old fable about the goose that laid the golden eggs: the goose’s owners killed it to get at the gold inside, only to find themselves impoverished once the source of their wealth was gone. The morals — to leave well enough alone, to not be greedy, and to respect [...]

“War and Peace”: A Review

It is difficult, in reviewing classics, to say things about them that have not been said before. It is especially difficult when those classics are part of the literary canon; and even more difficult when those classics are not mere novels, but purposeful epics. It is in this light that reviewing Leo Tolstoy’s War [...]

The utility of denial.

The argument for Kosovar independence, inasmuch as there is one, rests upon a two propositions: first, that ethnic groups per se deserve sovereignty; and second, that Kosovo experienced a unique and sui generis oppression that merits unique and sui generis independence. The second proposition received an explicit endorsement and elaboration from Secretary of State [...]