With his remarkable longevity, Henry Kissinger might still be available to negotiate another American surrender.

It’s early days but another vista of broken and renewed friendships may be opening up.

Studying Thatcher through Charles Moore’s eyes provides lessons about statecraft that will never stale.

There is a long and storied history of presidents who have been authors of books that display admirable literary skill.

The current Republican Party has many problems, but the attempt to pathologize the GOP is deeply anti-democratic.

Machiavelli lived not for the sake of his own time or for his next life but for his progeny in later times.

When government presumes to reshape society, the result is likely to be gory.

These recent books tell us something about our current challenges, though they’re not even thoughtful.

Abraham Lincoln never let himself forget that he stood on the shoulders of the American Founders.

The immigration crisis of 1620.

Heroes and history in an ideological age.

How Theodor Herzl became the unlikely father of Zionism.