President Lyndon Johnson and the “best and the brightest” who staffed his administration led this country into three quagmires.  By far the most famous, but perhaps not the most expensive and dangerous resulted from LBJ’s escalation of the Vietnam War.  More than 50,000 Americans and many more Vietnamese died as a result of that policy; […]

Some readers are wondering why I am spending so much time analyzing the political problems of a former vice president.  It is not out of any personal animus toward Mr. Gore.  Though I’m not expecting any invitations to any of Mr. Gore’s lovely homes, the doors to the stately Mead manor in glamorous Queens are […]

Three myths about the Greek crisis.

from the U.S. Ambassador to Brazil.

Brazil’s former President talks with the AI’s Walter Russell Mead about his country’s emergence as a democracy and an economic powerhouse, and how a man of the Left got labelled as a man of the right.

Europe’s student protests point to deeper social and political dilemmas.

Gimmicks can’t mask basic political disagreement; they only make things worse.

Robin Fox explains how cousin marriage in Iraq relates to the meaning of Antigone.

The outcome of any U.S.-Iranian military conflict is far too complex to predict.

Did Bush’s “forward strategy for freedom” birth the Arab Spring? Umm, no.