I‘ve been too busy lately to contribute to blog, or so I’ve told myself. I have still not gotten entirely used to moving from a quarterly to a bi-monthly schedule, and my limited management skills have been manifest in the process. “Too busy” may therefore really mean “not very well organized”, but whatever the reasons […]

Nothing embodies asymmetrical warfare in the 21st century better than the improvised explosive device- the IED. Anybody can make one, and after it’s done its damage, there’s usually nobody to blame. Even with the best trained, best funded, most sophisticated military in the world, the United States is struggling to defend itself and its soldiers […]

Dear Political Bloggers, Did you know that some political campaigns have a tactic called “the shiny object theory” to manage their critics in the blogosphere? That theory presumes that opponents of a campaign can be distracted from large, important issues (like war, taxes and the ins-and-outs of the federal deficit) by smaller, salacious items that […]

Pace Allen Lynch, it’s both possible and wise for Western policy to challenge Putin’s anti-democratic ways.

Nope, it’s neither possible nor wise.

Fear of revived Russian power is exaggerated.

American professional baseball is increasingly international in flavor, but its popularity overseas will remain limited.

Two new books put Steven Spielberg on an undeserved pedestal.

How a Quaker lass invented the most famous board game in American history, and how a big, wolfish company came to own it.

America’s charitable foundations are benign, influential—and endangered.