Pre- and postmodern “barbarians” have much in common, with sobering implications for U.S. strategy and the War on Terror.

On January 10, 2007, TAI editor Adam Garfinkle sat with the outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations to discuss political philosophy, foreign policy and bureaucratic craft.

A short history of Suburbia, its discontents and its ironies.

Pace Allen Lynch, it’s both possible and wise for Western policy to challenge Putin’s anti-democratic ways.

Nope, it’s neither possible nor wise.

Fear of revived Russian power is exaggerated.

American professional baseball is increasingly international in flavor, but its popularity overseas will remain limited.

Two new books put Steven Spielberg on an undeserved pedestal.

How a Quaker lass invented the most famous board game in American history, and how a big, wolfish company came to own it.

America’s charitable foundations are benign, influential—and endangered.