Former president Obama’s advisors used to tout his approach as “no drama Obama.” But there was plenty of drama during…
Great Power Diplomacy: The Skill of Statecraft from Attila the Hun to Kissinger By A. Wess Mitchell Princeton, 2025, 352…
“They are not going to have a nuclear weapon … We’re never going to let Iran have a nuclear weapon.”…
Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman sounds a lot like Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson, a Democrat who served in U.S. the…
Government bureaucracies change very slowly. There is a tendency among governments — call it bureaucratic inertia — to keep doing…
David Brooks, one of the pretend conservatives at the New York Times (Bret Stephens is the other), takes to the…
In Japan, she is known as the “iron lady,” a not-so-subtle comparison to Britain’s Margaret Thatcher — the staunch American…
The journal Foreign Affairs currently features an essay by three college professors that portrays China under the leadership of Xi…
Eighty years ago, on July 17, 1945, the last of the Second World War’s “Big Three” conferences was convened at…
