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Bernard-Henri Levy, a French intellectual following in Tocqueville’s footsteps, discusses America with Francis Fukuyama.

A multinational solution for keeping states out of the nuclear weapons business.

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Dana giola, Chairman of National Endowment for the Arts, talks with jazz legend Dave Brubeck about diplomacy in 5/4 time.

Two years after the Abu Ghraib story came to light, we still haven't gotten to the bottom of its darkness.

Michael Mandelbaum’s The Case for Goliath likens America’s global role to that of a government. A distinguished French observer, astonishingly agrees.

When Americans eat at Baja Fresh or Panda Express, they're digesting more than they think.