I’m saddened by the passing of Christopher Hitchens, a writer whose exquisite style I’ve admired for as long as I’ve been old enough to know what’s any good. Nevertheless, I can’t bring myself to properly mourn him without reflecting on his failings. All the encomia so far have been adulatory, and much of that is […]

The general's second career as a statesman has begun.

Proposals for beefing up the non-kinetic side of U.S. statecraft.

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

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

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

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

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

Reconsidering a great American historian who faced some familiar dilemmas.

What's behind it? And can it last?