CIA Contrarian Herbert E. Meyer, R.I.P.
A perspicacious observer of foreign threats and weaknesses has passed away.
Back from the Brink
Steven F. Hayward reviews The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983, by Marc Ambinder, 1983: Reagan, Andropov, and a World on the Brink, by Taylor Downing, ...
The Regressive Progressives
Various strains of Progressive thought -- philosophy, history, biology, law, and economics -- were all amalgamated in the Progressive embrace of eugenics.
Getting a Grip on the Gipper
Historical fiction can be an imaginative way of exploring great historical characters and bringing events to life beyond the documentary evidence and witness accounts. You might have thought writers would ...
Grievance School
Of all the college towns fixed in the American mind as bastions of elite leftism, a Big Four stand out: Cambridge, Madison, Berkeley, and Boulder. It was no wonder, then, ...
Grievance School
Of all the college towns fixed in the American mind as bastions of elite leftism, a Big Four stand out: Cambridge, Madison, Berkeley, and Boulder. It was no wonder, then, ...
Whose Declaration? Which Equality?
It has always been the fate of the Declaration of Independence to bounce back and forth between the political equivalents of foster homes and orphanages. This owes to its ambiguous ...
A Night at The Improv
In the early innings after the end of the Cold War, the media and much of the foreign-policy community wanted to give Mikhail Gorbachev the full credit for its surprising ...