Increased European investment in defense is about more than just “burden sharing” or Europe paying its “fair share.” Europe’s vital national security interests–and the future of the West—are at stake.

Once again, as before the age of the European empires, political order has become weak in much of the world.

The greatest threat to the liberal international order comes not from Russia, China, or jihadist terror but from the self-induced deconstruction of Western culture.

The first obligation of leadership is to one’s own people. The international elite have forgotten that, and end up serving no one but themselves.

We don’t live in the world the “liberal internationalists” have imagined exists; we live in a world where, more and more, the law of the jungle applies.

If people define a nation as real, it is real in its consequences.

After years of the Syrian civil war, the UN is foundering, and putting the President’s foreign policy legacy at risk.

We are in the early or, at best, early-middle stages of a vicious cycle of violence.

Why everyone’s favorite analogy for today’s unsettled times—the year 1914—doesn’t pass the smell test.

Failed American policies have helped create the global refugee crisis, which sees migrants drowning in the hulls of boats bound for Europe.