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World Baseball—Jewish Baseball
Team Israel’s Field of Dreams

Will Team Israel’s “David and Goliath” performance at the World Baseball Classic be a turning point for baseball in the Holy Land?

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Asia's Game of Thrones
The Pacific Power

Michael Green’s By More Than Providence is an insightful study—combining theory, history, and experience—of American grand strategy in Asia. It’s also a practical guide for extending American influence and power in the region.

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National Defense
Nuclear Deterrence: Still the Bedrock of US Security

The U.S. government must stay the course on plans to correct decades of underinvestment in its nuclear deterrent.

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Yevgeniy Yevtushenko RIP
A Soviet Man

Politically and poetically, Yevtushenko pushed to extend—but never to break—the limits of the permissible in Soviet society.

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Eurasian Dreams
Belarus and the Failure of the Russian World

Moscow’s plans to make Belarus a cornerstone of its Eurasian integration project are looking like an increasingly bad bet.

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Time to Re-Engage
Middle Kingdom Meets Middle East

China’s enhanced Middle East profile sends an important message to the Trump Administration about America’s role in the region.

The Virtues of Ignorance
Pumphrett and the Tangled Web

Volume six of The Pumphrett Papers.

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Higher Ed Bubble
The Meaning of Middlebury

Why the cultivation of the mind is at odds with “passion” and “engagement.”

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Moral Panics
Fear and Loathing of Donald Trump

Reactions to Trump show that elites are also susceptible to collective moods.

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Of Licks and Riffs
The Guts of What Made Chuck Berry Great

Berry was great not because of what he led to but because of what he was.

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