California is broke. Ungovernable, too.

Meet William Playfair, 18th-century philosopher, writer, inventor, spy.

Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker is an Iraq war film we can believe in.

Is the global religious revival advancing modernity, or hindering it?

An allergy to nuclear power saps U.S. nonproliferation policy leverage.

Creating a coherent strategy means aligning goals, missions and resources; we can do it if we try.

What Republicans can learn from the Age of Reagan.

Why does the West have such a hard time naming its terrorist enemies?

As with fascism and communism before, we’re underrating ideology and “split modernity” in confronting our enemies.

The National Transportation Safety Board looks out for travelers;
a similar board could look out for the financial system.