Boris Yeltsin climbed a tank Though his breath from vodka strongly stank. Just goes to show that bravery’s call May be heard by one and all. David Halberstam met his fate Meeting Y.A. Tittle for a date. The best and the brightest all pass away, The errors greater for their sway. Nobody’s perfect, to be […]

While commentators like Charles Krauthammer and John Bolton have charged that Britain capitulated to Iran and handed them a humiliating victory in obtaining the release of the 15 British Marines last week (when has Krauthammer ever not cried “Munich!” in response to an act of diplomacy?), it would appear that something more like the opposite […]

While commentators like Charles Krauthammer and John Bolton have charged that Britain capitulated to Iran and handed them a humiliating victory in obtaining the release of the 15 British Marines last week (when has Krauthammer ever not cried “Munich!” in response to an act of diplomacy?), it would appear that something more like the opposite […]

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 […]

The New America Foundation and Johns Hopkins SAIS co-sponsored a presentation of the report, Beyond Bioethics: A Proposal for the Modernization of Human Biotechnologies, on Capitol Hill March 2. The presentation was made by Francis Fukuyama and Franco Furger, with commentary by Shannon Brownlee of New America, Richard Hayes of the Center for Genetics and […]

The assertion of U.S. sovereignty, coupled with a pledge to stop interfering in the affairs of others, will produce a more peaceable world.

Technological change and small-town nostalgia are combining to revive America’s Heartland.

The rise of cities shaped Western history. Now it may be reshaping the world.