What’s in a Name?

It’s time to end the “war” on terror.

Afghan Dilemmas: Defining Commitments

Critiquing the above-proposed U.S.-Afghanistan defense treaty, and an alternative.

Talking about God in Modesto

Religion in public schools doesn’t have to be divisive.

Deterring the Debt Weapon

The strategic dangers of financial manipulation are real.

Six-Party Tales

Answering The Peninsula Question, by Yoichi Funabashi.

Strong States and Liberty

The fiasco of the Olympic Torch Relay has focused attention on the condition of human rights in China. What is the source of human rights abuses in that country today? Many people assume the problem is that China remains a communist dictatorship, and that abuses occur because a strong centralized Chinese state ignores the rights […]

The Theotropic Instinct

The temptation to mix religion and politics springs eternal.

The Wondrous Wall of Separation

American church-state relations in practice.

What Makes a Neocon?

Is neoconservatism a “Jewish mindset”?

George Washington, Reluctant Realist

“What if we win?” was a question that resounded in 1778, too.

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