Cold War

Living in a Nuclear World

We cannot uninvent nuclear weapons, so what is the next best option?

Lech Walesa & Transcendent Truth

Great leaders who advance the cause of humanity are never cynical.

Pacem in Terris and Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger thought deeply about the legacy of Pope John XXIII’s encyclical “Pacem in Terris” (Peace on Earth)

Kissinger, America & Humanity

Kisinger was immune to soaring Yankee optimism. 

The New Progressive-Islamist Alliance

A pernicious coalition of progressives and Islamists has been at the forefront of anti-Israel activism. But this bond is nothing new.

George Kennan: Cold War America’s Intellectual-in-Chief

George Kennan was among the greatest American foreign policy minds of the 20th century

Christian Realism vis-à-vis the Liberalism of Fear: Thoughts on Samuel Moyn’s “Liberalism Against Itself”

Herbert Butterfield and Reinhold Niebuhr, the two great 20th-Century Christian Realists, must be essential to a recovery of liberalism

In Defense of Cold War Liberalism 

Hard to imagine why Yale University Press would publish Samuel Moyn’s new book when its narrative is so detached from reality

George F. Kennan’s “X” Article in Foreign Affairs 

George Kennan’s “Sources of Soviet Conduct” article in Foreign Affairs remains one of the most influential of all time