With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. – Abraham Lincoln

Democracy and America values today in the world seem again at low tide.

From inflation at home to declining American power abroad, the 2020s are looking a lot like the 1970s

Review of Luke Nichter’s new book “The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968”

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.

Reinhold Niebuhr would recognize the nuances that this documentary chose to ignore.  

A statecraft dreaming that a great nation can be in the world but not of it is both hubristic and self-righteous.

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.

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.