building liberty

Faith & Progress Anglo-American freedoms, the very sources of worldly success, are rooted in religious faith.

Grudging Consent Democracy turns out to be a verb describing how some rulers acquire the resources to govern.

Democracy, Union Made Free trade unions have long been global democracy's most powerful accelerator. How did we forget that?

Labor Pains The late professor, Senator and Ambassador speaks again—from his 1960 doctoral dissertation.

The Right Side of the Law Democracy promotion isn't "interference" into sovereign affairs of autocracies. It's legal, and laudable.

design failure

Breaking The Bank The U.S. military needs to stop cramming new technologies into old platforms.

Marking Time Bureaucratic sclerosis is the biggest threat to America's national security.

Managing to Fail The NSC/interagency system can't cope with a multi-dimensional strategic environment.

reporting the "good war"

Over Here, Now Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns talks about The War with Thomas Childers.

Over There, Then In 1936, John Gunther predicted the next nine years' darkness.

reviews

Fast Food We've been what we've eaten, evidently, for some ten millennia.

Wising Up Two new books about what's wrong with the CIA get it (mostly) right.

Return of the Natives Kwame Anthony Appiah wrestles with "cosmopolitanism", but it escapes him.

Air Ball Did the 1984 NBA draft change basketball "forever"?

Finding the Fair Way Crusader for the poor, master golf course designer. Same person.

letters & notes

Letter from a BlackBerry Addict Think you can read this without checking your email?

Letters to the Editor Peter Robinson and John Kornblum on Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech.

The Kings and I The AI's chairman tells Putin and Nazarbayev a thing or two in St. Petersburg.

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September/October 2007

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