This May marked the loss of four masterful men of letters—men with no obvious successors, whose careers would be all but impossible today.

The strange saga of Victor Restis shows how Greece keeps falling prey to corrupt foreign profiteers—and just how easily the rot can spread.

Ukraine’s leading whistleblower is being squeezed by the authorities for calling out the country’s corruption. Is he Ukraine’s answer to Alexey Navalny?

We are clearly at the end of an era. Making or missing spurious military spending targets has nothing to do with it.

Buying in to the myth of Russia’s humiliation at the hands of the West does nothing to improve relations in the long term. It could do a great deal of harm to Russia as well.

Fear is politically fungible, able to migrate stealthily from one cause to others, and from one host to others. Fear can also pool or coalesce around shocking experiences. These gymnastic capacities are what give terrorism its social and, ultimately, its political punch.

Alan Jacobs’s latest book is a guide for thinking seriously in an age of distraction—but it falls prey to the very kind of habits which he aims to counter.

A reply to David Blankenhorn’s “Service, Please!”

Though it has its blindspots, Mike McFaul’s memoir of his time as Obama’s main Russia hand is an enlightening and important read—especially with Trump now at the wheel.

The parallels between the migrant crisis and Hurricane Katrina are worth thinking about.