Earlier this summer U.S. Ambassador to NATO Ivo H. Daalder stepped down from his posting to become president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. TAI editor Adam Garfinkle recently spoke with him about his tenure in Brussels, focusing on some of the key issues that continue to animate Transatlantic discussions. Adam Garfinkle: Looking back […]

This is a guest post by Adam Garfinkle, editor of the American Interest. It is cross-posted from his blog elsewhere on this site. Be sure to bookmark his page!What happened in Egypt yesterday and is continuing to happen today is sad, disheartening and about as completely unsurprising as any such event can be. In Tuesday’s […]

American higher education is older than the nation itself and a magnet to aspiring students at home and throughout the world. Millions enroll in its institutions, learn from its professors, and benefit from its energy, research findings and intellectual sophistication. It affords employment to more than 3.8 million people, full and part-time (with about three-quarters […]

Decadence may be an inevitable outgrowth of modernity, but it doesn’t necessarily presage decline and fall. Liberty, properly understood as based on self-discipline, is the best bulwark against social and moral decay.

Iranian-Turkish history from half a millennium ago bears important advice for the United States today.

The kosher certification industry shows us how the private sector can help the public sector handle complex but critical functions like food safety.

Congress’s failure to pass a farm bill this year owes much to a grand but outdated political bargain pairing rural and urban interests.

We’ve long assumed that fraying families are a natural consequence of secularization. What if it’s the other way around?

Texas is challenging California for the right to be called the harbinger of the nation’s future. How does its claim hold up?

What we remember has a lot to do with how we remember it.