What Japan’s pop-culture products tell us about its struggles with defeat, democratization and globalization.

Japan is wandering as three fundaments of its postwar identity erode.

Democratic ideals, not raw geopolitics, are shaping Asia’s future.

Were, and are, U.S. troop levels in Iraq sufficient? Depends who’s asking, and when.

Peace in the Pacific requires a U.S.-Japan alliance integrated into a new multilateral context that takes Chinese power seriously.

Should famously nasty people rate an obituary? It’s debatable.

Islamism is about religion after all, and our "freedom agenda" is backfiring.

America’s apparent success in Afghanistan is coming undone, and for good reasons: ignorance and hubris, to name two.

Leo Strauss rarely opined on foreign policy. But when he did, his conclusions diverged from those that animated U.S. decisions in Iraq.

There’s no keeping a good idea down—not that some won’t try.