Understanding Ourselves
Pax Anglo-Saxonica

There is a distinctive Anglo-American way of conceptualizing global strategic reality, and it goes far deeper than the abstractions of liberalism.

Understanding Our Adversaries
The Worst of All Possible Cubas

Three distinct patterns of transition out of communist rule exist: Russian, Chinese, and East European. The new American policy dooms Cuba to the worst of the lot.

Reviews
Capitalism Da Capo

Authors tapping into the renewed interest in the history and nature of capitalism are stumbling over an unexpected problem: There’s no agreement on what capitalism is.

Homo Americanus
Pedal Power to the People

Even more Americans are biking their way to work and to better health-also to bars, romance, and all too often emergency rooms.

Understanding Ourselves
The Exit Interview: A Conversation with Andrew Marshall

The creator and 42-year director of the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment plots his next career move.

2016
Scott Walker’s March Through the Academy

Wisconsin’s universities are starting to cut down their workforces in response to Scott Walker’s budget cuts.

U.S.-Israel Relations
Alone Among the Nations?

President Obama’s antipathy to Israel may lead the U.S. to turn on the Jewish state. In doing so, it would be following Europe down a dangerous path—dangerous not only to Israel, but to the U.S. itself.

Blue Model Corruption
Teacher of the Year, the Illinois Way

A union lobbyist in Illinois got a pension after substitute-teaching for a day. Now he’s brought a lawsuit that could increase those benefits

Iranian Dawn
The Day the Mullahs Smiled

When the Iranians are stringing you along in the nuclear talks and openly eyeing Jordan, it might be time to think twice.

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Opposition United
Captain Obama and the Great White Whale

President Obama perseveres, convinced that everyone will thank him when the Great White Whale of Middle East policy—a lasting nuclear deal with Iran—is finally harpooned. But as the endgame draws nigh, a unified chorus of naysayers is rising in volume.

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