Four days before he dropped out of the Republican race, Governor Rick Perry created an uproar by saying that Turkey is “being ruled by what many would perceive to be Islamic terrorists,” suggesting it was time to reevaluate Turkey’s place in NATO and to consider zeroing-out US aid to the country. There was, of course, […]

Francis Fukuyama’s blog continues to make waves, this time with a skillful dissection of just what has gone wrong in Hungary. Writes Frank: The problem lies entirely in how those powers are used: nobody trusts Viktor Orbán and Fideusz to use their powers responsibly, as evidenced in the way that the government rammed the constitution […]

Cuba has been searching for oil for years; improving technology means its chances are better than ever, and a new exploratory rig offers the island nation its best hope for good economic news since communism began to eat away at the island’s hopes back in the Eisenhower administration. Oil didn’t save communism in the Soviet […]

Back at the start of the decade, Via Meadia predicted that “[t]he end of the Cold War combined with the rise of Asia will introduce the world to a new kind of reality: a post-European world order.” The past year has moved the world a long way down this path. The United States spent the […]

Last month, Via Meadia reviewed a recent study about the quality of academic research and came to a disappointing conclusion: Much of the research produced by academics isn’t very good. A recent article in The Atlantic adds a new wrinkle: Not only is the quality of this research quite poor, universities are spending a fortune […]

A reply to Walter Russell Mead.

A reply to Walter Russell Mead.

A reply to Walter Russell Mead.

CS Lewis, who with his Oxford colleague JRR Tolkien, ranks with Ian Fleming, Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle as among the best known 20th century British authors among Americans, turned both Winston Churchill and the Queen down flat, newly released British documents show.The Order of the British Empire was established by George V originally […]

Earlier this month, reports that Indiana was gearing up for a fight between conservative politicians and organized labors brought echoes of Scott Walker’s Wisconsin to mind. The comparison has just become even more apt—the New York Times reports that Democrats opposing the right-to-work bill have decided to defeat it the only way they can—by refusing […]