After a rough week of paper grading, family visits and writing capsule reviews for Foreign Affairs, I’m getting back to an ambitious blogging schedule.  I’m working on a post about war with Iran that should be up by morning, planning a look at the state of the climate change movement following Al Gore’s typically unreflective […]

Recently, on a trip to Washington, D.C., I stopped by the offices of The American Interest and sat down to discuss the Tea Party movement in the context of historical American populism, something I wrote about in my recent post, “Do Soldiers Drink Tea?“.Subscribe to The American Interest podcasts through iTunes here.)

Israel and America have long taken opposite approaches to managing Palestinians and other Arabs. It’s time we recognized the divide.

Peter de Vries on religion: Can’t live with it, can’t live without it.

There’s less to the Supreme Court’s swing voter than meets the eye.

Yevgeny Primakov has been a disaster for U.S.-Russian relations.

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s new book is too much of a good thing.

Big changes and important decisions are on the horizon in Iraq.

Five major narratives have arisen to grasp the meaning of 9/11.
It matters which ones we choose.

America needs fewer boots on the ground in the Persian Gulf region.