What Japan’s pop-culture products tell us about its struggles with defeat, democratization and globalization.

Japan is wandering as three fundaments of its postwar identity erode.

Democratic ideals, not raw geopolitics, are shaping Asia’s future.

Were, and are, U.S. troop levels in Iraq sufficient? Depends who’s asking, and when.

Should famously nasty people rate an obituary? It’s debatable.

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.

In a web-only exclusive, the author of The End of History and the Last Man looks at the potential crisis of legitimacy the United States finds itself in today. Originally delivered as a presentation to the American Political Science Association annual meeting on September 1, 2006.