As with fascism and communism before, we’re underrating ideology and “split modernity” in confronting our enemies.

Why does the West have such a hard time naming its terrorist enemies?

What Republicans can learn from the Age of Reagan.

Creating a coherent strategy means aligning goals, missions and resources; we can do it if we try.

An allergy to nuclear power saps U.S. nonproliferation policy leverage.

Is the global religious revival advancing modernity, or hindering it?

Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker is an Iraq war film we can believe in.

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

California is broke. Ungovernable, too.

An old obsession goes virtual in the age of globalization.