Imperialism, American-Style
Involvement in the world provides both benefit and danger.
Book Reviews
Imperialism, American-Style
Involvement in the world provides both benefit and danger.
Rehabilitating Grant
Does U.S. Grant deserve his sordid reputation?
Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man?
Sex and gender in 2018.
One Nation
Sovereignty has returned with a vengeance.
The Prophet of Ordinary Unhappiness
The world wallowed in hysterical misery; Freud offered to replace it with ordinary unhappiness.
The Past is Prologue
China's Communist Party changes its past to help preserve its power in the present.
The Great Dismantler
Mikhail Gorbachev deserves praise for dismantling the Evil Empire.
Slouching Toward Bethlehem
Rome's slow softening prepared the path for Christianity’s success.
An Honest Conversation about Race
We can never get enough race talk.
A Man of Accomplishment
How to build an entrepreneurial life.
Missing the Point
What are we to make of Madison’s revisions to his notes?
Misreading Montaigne
Montaigne's aspiration was to shape the politics of the future.
The Figure in the Carpet
When reading, never give short shrift to the obvious.
He’s History
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.’s political histories came up short.
Shadow Play
The Dark at the End of the Tunnel
Ken Burns’s The Vietnam War does not take sides.
Essays
On the Natural Law of War and Peace
A guide for statesmen and warriors.
Hail, Mommsen
A German historian's tribute to Rome.
Thinking about Trump
Morality, politics, and the presidency.
These Honored Dead
How the Vietnam Veterans Memorial succeeded despite itself.
The Vietnam War Revisited
Why the conventional history is wrong.
What’s the Matter with Congress?
Why it’s hard to make Congress great again.
The Tragic Sense
What Joseph Conrad knew.
From the Editor's Desk
When Your Neighbors Are Passive-Progressive
Progressive enclaves are neither diverse, nor inclusive.
Parthian Shot
The Guillotine of Sophistry
Some political and ethical issues do not present opportunities for nuance and compromise.
Correspondence
Correspondence
Constitutional Bureaucracy? Hayek and the E.U., Crime and Punishment