How is it that Russia looped away from the Soviet matrix in the late 1980s, only to recreate so much of it between 1991 and now? The first of a two-part essay.

Andrew Michta recently sat down with Poland’s Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak for an extended discussion of the key security challenges facing Europe in the wake of the war in Ukraine. The conversation quickly moved to the larger questions of NATO, EU, Russia, and Polish defense policy.

A meditation on happiness, personal yet probing, from 1958.

Aristotle and Plato famously differed about plenty, but we might take to heart what they agreed on.

Responding to public outrage, The Met has canceled global simulcasts of its staging of The Death of Klinghoffer in 2,000 theaters and 65 countries—a clear admission of the opera’s potential to spread hatred. The eight New York performances should be canceled as well.

When U.S. policymakers focus on Iran, they tend to look at technical issues—its military capabilities, its economy, its nuclear ambitions. But they seldom pay enough attention to its ideological beliefs.

Working abroad for the U.S. government in the darkest corners of human depravity can make a person very unwell.

The kingdom’s push against the Muslim Brotherhood could provide an opportunity to move Saudi society away from religious extremism.

To understand what makes a dictator tick—and what separates today’s tin-pots from the tyrants of the past century—imagine you’re the man who cuts his hair.

Changes in the threat posed by jihadi extremism are challenging our ability to adapt.