In a lengthy and important essay in Foreign Affairs about “detente” with the Soviet Union, historian Niall Ferguson, who is…

When I was a boy riding the bus to our diocesan high school, an older kid sometimes sat in the…

What do foreign policy realists hope for? Not global democracy. Not the emergence of greater global governance. Not a unipolar…

Some conservatives, most prominently Vivek Ramaswamy, think the United States can flip Russia from foe to friend and end the…

The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad By Harrison Salisbury (‎ Da Capo Press, 672 pages, $23) Eighty-two years ago, the…

Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the growing antisemitism on America’s campuses is just how long those in the best…

Le Temps Des Combats (The Time of Battles) By Nicolas Sarkozy (Fayard, 592 pages, $43) Like clockwork, every time former…

Sixty years ago today, the president of the United States was murdered by Lee Harvey Oswald. No one experienced the…

Over the years I’ve had many hard things to say about the ambience of wealth and ambition at Princeton University,…

MAD or “mutually-assured destruction” is truly mad. The idea that a nuclear strike by one nation must result in worldwide…