The spearhead of the Transatlantic relationship is now undermining it.

Transforming America's Asian alliances into an integrated net-centric system.

David Brooks’s attempt to popularize social science’s recent harvest of insight succeeds, mostly.

The sociology of religion takes everything about its subject seriously, with one important exception.

An ambitious effort to illuminate Old World influences on American popular culture falls short.

There was a time when writers found deep meaning in the sport of boxing. Are those days gone for good?

Hollywood classics illuminate the complexities of Afghanistan.

There are lessons to be learned from the rejuvenation of this former narco-hellhole of murder and mayhem.

Heda Margolius Kovály’s Under a Cruel Star is a masterpiece of memoir still awaiting its due

How the Pentagon’s official fundraiser for the war in Afghanistan discovered that stingy allies weren’t even the half of the problem compared to the mess in Washington.