From inflation at home to declining American power abroad, the 2020s are looking a lot like the 1970s
Mike CotéSeptember 12, 2024
Review of Luke Nichter’s new book “The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968”
Dean C. CurryNovember 20, 2023
How a military works to rebuild itself, and how to find value in service to an ungrateful nation are evergreen lessons of Atkinson’s novel.
Garrett ExnerMay 29, 2023
Reinhold Niebuhr would recognize the nuances that this documentary chose to ignore.
Mark TooleyMarch 31, 2023
A statecraft dreaming that a great nation can be in the world but not of it is both hubristic and self-righteous.
Mark TooleyMarch 21, 2023
Richard Mouw is an American, and he loves his country the most, according to his newly released How to be a Patriotic Christian: Love of Country as Love of Neighbor.
Jackson WatersSeptember 5, 2022
When in 1967 the University of Virginia recruited Professor Norman A. Graebner from the University of Illinois to teach diplomatic history, a huge row ensued.
Robert MorrisonJune 23, 2022
Just war thinking is moral analysis of military action, not a framework for foreign policy. Acknowledging these limitations helps us to become better just war casuists, and it highlights the need for values-driven strategic thinking in the foreign policy sphere.
Debra EricksonJanuary 21, 2022
In her 2003 book Just War Against Terror, Jean Bethke Elshtain argued for a new paradigm for a just war: the fight against global terrorism, particularly terrorism perpetrated by followers of militant Islam. Twenty years after 9/11, this claim is due for revisiting.
Debra EricksonOctober 6, 2021