Feudin'

Jonathan Franzen, the Iraq War, and Leo Strauss

An Apology

Hillary Clinton's 'American Moment' Was Nothing But American Blather

Reviewing Obama’s Iraq Speech

How Do Long Wars Become So Long?

Obama Wants Us To Forget the Lessons of Iraq

The Taliban And Rabbi Ovadia Yosef

David Brooks Tries To Be Too Evenhanded

Hillary Clinton's Naïve, Muddled Approach to Development

Smack on the No’s

Losing Hearts and Minds: Development and Its Discontents

Terrorism And The Mosque

This Is an Economy Election—And That’s Terrible News for Dems

Europe Can’t Afford to Let Turkey Face East: A Response to Geoffrey Wheatcroft

The Downsizing of American Foreign Policy

Unbreakable Promises

Losing Faith

Why Do Presidents Do Anything, Anyway, If Voters Don't Care?

How NGOs Became Pawns in the War on Terrorism