Leo Strauss rarely opined on foreign policy. But when he did, his conclusions diverged from those that animated U.S. decisions in Iraq.

There’s no keeping a good idea down—not that some won’t try.

Bruce Springsteen’s latest is an acoustic history lesson you can dance to.

The former Congressman takes the measure of a new history of the House.

Eight suggestions for stopping over $1 trillion worth of ill-gotten gains from flowing annually across international borders.

China is seizing the initiative in Asian economic diplomacy. U.S. policy should respond with CEPAs—the first one with Japan.

The only thing more scientifically suspect than Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” is the conservative response to it.

The theory that rapid economic growth is politically stabilizing seems too stupid to kill–but Mancur Olson tried.

The Founders were neither orthodox Christians nor secularists. They were, however, wise.

The former Senator, UN Ambassador and Episcopal priest talks with Walter Russell Mead about religion and politics at home and abroad.