Critics of recent Administration tactics on Korea and Iran protest too much—sometimes way too much.

The State Department needs to do “information” better, but we should privatize the “engage and persuade” business.

Bigger is not necessarily better. Here are four principles for enlarging the U.S. Army and Marine Corps.

Despite reforms, the U.S. foreign aid regime is still flawed.

The grand, strange and illuminating story of Washington, DC, and the eccentric genius of its designer. Also included, a photo tour of the city by the author.

Douglas Hofstadter’s 1979 book, Gödel, Escher, Bach, is now joined by I Am a Strange Loop.

Klaus Schwab’s most recent extravaganza was “lite” on America. What a difference a year can make.

Notes on the pratfalls of democracy promotion.

Boris Yeltsin climbed a tank Though his breath from vodka strongly stank. Just goes to show that bravery’s call May be heard by one and all. David Halberstam met his fate Meeting Y.A. Tittle for a date. The best and the brightest all pass away, The errors greater for their sway. Nobody’s perfect, to be […]

While commentators like Charles Krauthammer and John Bolton have charged that Britain capitulated to Iran and handed them a humiliating victory in obtaining the release of the 15 British Marines last week (when has Krauthammer ever not cried “Munich!” in response to an act of diplomacy?), it would appear that something more like the opposite […]