Reconsidering a great American historian who faced some familiar dilemmas.

A new five-disc set of the King's recordings begs the question: Was he really all that good?

Martin van Creveld's The Age of Airpower flies high, but off-course.

Poland finds itself on its own more than ever–and liking it.

Hungarian democracy is in retreat; even the U.S. State Department has begun to notice.

An American foreign policy doctrine for the nonpolar moment.

American master essayist Joseph Epstein adds Gossip to his literary quiver.

Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum's That Used to Be Us fights the latest upsurge of American declinism to a draw.

A conversation with Pavel Bratinka on the legacy of 20th-century totalitarianism in the Czech Republic.

Poland's vast, untapped reserves of shale gas can transform global energy markets and European-Russian relations.