Essays
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Ethics and Politics
The Sadness of Princes

Angela Merkel finds herself in a Machiavellian dilemma: caught between moral compulsion and the reasons of state.

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New World Disorder
The Deconstruction of the West

The greatest threat to the liberal international order comes not from Russia, China, or jihadist terror but from the self-induced deconstruction of Western culture.

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The Role of Ideology
Terror in Stockholm

Last week’s terror attack in Sweden should raise important questions about how the West defines its enemies.

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Life in America
Notes on Cost Disease

Important goods and services are costing Americans vastly more over time. It’s time to notice, and figure out why.

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Getting Serious
Khan Sheikhoun, Shayrat Air Base, and Now What?

I wrote my first response to the U.S. cruise missile attack on Shayrat Air Base on April 7, 2017, at 2:30 p.m. EDT—in other words, about 18 hours after the attack. A great deal more has happened since, and it is in the nature of a crisis that this be so. One of the characteristics […]

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Getting Serious
Russia in Syria: What Next?

In the short-term Putin can shrug off the U.S. strikes, but Russia’s long-term strategy in Syria is coming under strain.

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Art of the Deal
The Last Conservative Statesman

With the “art of the deal” back in the vogue in American diplomacy, the career of the Fifth Marquess of Lansdowne is overdue for a reappraisal.

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World Baseball—Jewish Baseball
Team Israel’s Field of Dreams

Will Team Israel’s “David and Goliath” performance at the World Baseball Classic be a turning point for baseball in the Holy Land?

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beyond blue
Revamping the Retirement System

The following is written testimony delivered to the United States Senate Subcommittee on Economic Policy on April 5, 2017.

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National Defense
Nuclear Deterrence: Still the Bedrock of US Security

The U.S. government must stay the course on plans to correct decades of underinvestment in its nuclear deterrent.

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