Recession Regression

Before the collapse of Lehman Brothers, economic theory trumped economic history; no longer. But what does that history tell us?

Chumps for Cheapness

Why IKEA is just as bad as Wal-Mart.

An End to Dithering

Japan’s August 30 election, which swept the ruling Liberal Democratic Party out of power, changes everything—perhaps.

What Is Power?

A bold new design for a master metric of national power.

Geography and Character

Simple questions do not always dispose themselves to simple answers, so in pondering what it means to say that Germany is (or is not) a normal country twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, I turn first to analogies furnished by memory. Two memories, in particular, come to mind. In the early 1970s, I […]

On the Ground in Kandahar

You could say that we began going wobbly over Afghanistan in March, when the much-heralded new strategy embodied the best nation-building aspirations, but did not quite add up to a renewed declaration of war. There are good reasons too. It is a huge leap from calculating how much we can afford to lose to trying […]

The Link between Iran and Venezuela: A Crisis in the Making?

The issues I will discuss with all of you are the blossoming relationship between what might seem unlikely bedfellows…. the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, whether we have a national security crisis looming on the horizon, and whether our national security and law enforcement communities are sufficiently focused on this […]

Retroview: An Agent of Influence

Meet William Playfair, 18th-century philosopher, writer, inventor, spy.

Riding the Ratchet

California is broke. Ungovernable, too.

Autumn Note: The Future of Jewcentricity

An old obsession goes virtual in the age of globalization.

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