How Samuel Huntington helps us understand the Jasmine Revolutions.

How the Pentagon’s official fundraiser for the war in Afghanistan discovered that stingy allies weren’t even the half of the problem compared to the mess in Washington.

Heda Margolius Kovály’s Under a Cruel Star is a masterpiece of memoir still awaiting its due

There are lessons to be learned from the rejuvenation of this former narco-hellhole of murder and mayhem.

Hollywood classics illuminate the complexities of Afghanistan.

There was a time when writers found deep meaning in the sport of boxing. Are those days gone for good?

An ambitious effort to illuminate Old World influences on American popular culture falls short.

The sociology of religion takes everything about its subject seriously, with one important exception.

David Brooks’s attempt to popularize social science’s recent harvest of insight succeeds, mostly.

Transforming America's Asian alliances into an integrated net-centric system.