
Francis P. Sempa
Sixty years ago, James Burnham’s book Suicide of the West was published to much acclaim from conservatives and much criticism…
Standing Up Space Force: The Road to the Nation’s Sixth Armed Service By Forrest L. Marion (Naval Institute Press, 289…
The headline in the Washington Times reads: “West Point deletes ‘duty, honor, country’ from mission statement.” The letter announcing this…
The World That Wasn’t: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century By Ben Steil (Simon & Schuster, 704…
In a lengthy and important essay in Foreign Affairs about “detente” with the Soviet Union, historian Niall Ferguson, who is…
Sportscaster and CNN contributor Bob Costas made headlines recently by calling former President Donald Trump “by far the most disgraceful…
In an important and timely essay in Foreign Affairs, the Naval War College’s Andrew Erickson, Gabriel Collins of Rice University’s…
Just in time for Presidents Day, the American Political Science Association released its 2024 survey of presidential greatness, which merely…
“Idealists,” wrote Halford Mackinder in his 1919 geopolitical masterpiece Democratic Ideals and Reality, “are the salt of the earth; without…
Joseph Nye, the emeritus professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School and former foreign policy adviser to Presidents Carter, Clinton, and Obama,…