This is a guest post by Adam Garfinkle, editor of the American Interest. It is cross-posted from his blog elsewhere on this site. Be sure to bookmark his page!What happened in Egypt yesterday and is continuing to happen today is sad, disheartening and about as completely unsurprising as any such event can be. In Tuesday’s […]

What happened in Egypt yesterday and is continuing to happen today is sad, disheartening and about as completely unsurprising as any such event can be. In Tuesday’s short post I referred in passing to “the impending street clashes in Cairo.” In my August 2 post I specified the epicenter of the violence to come, the […]

I have not previously dragged out an issue from one post to the next, but I will this time. I just came across two news items that further illustrate a point I made in my most recent post. Most of that post dealt with the persecution of Christians in many countries, compared with which some […]

Back on July 1, just a few days before the military ousting of Mohamed Morsi in Egypt, I wrote a politically incorrect post about the pre-modern character of much of the Muslim Brotherhood cadre. I did so because it was directly relevant to the fact that a very large number of Egyptians were in the […]

Damir Marusic, The American Interest’s associate publisher and general web wizard, has created a Javascript version of my program Creatures.

American higher education is older than the nation itself and a magnet to aspiring students at home and throughout the world. Millions enroll in its institutions, learn from its professors, and benefit from its energy, research findings and intellectual sophistication. It affords employment to more than 3.8 million people, full and part-time (with about three-quarters […]

A modest proposal for more effective U.S. assistance for India’s burgeoning security problem.

New adventures in America’s faith-based foreign policy.

Decadence may be an inevitable outgrowth of modernity, but it doesn’t necessarily presage decline and fall. Liberty, properly understood as based on self-discipline, is the best bulwark against social and moral decay.

Iranian-Turkish history from half a millennium ago bears important advice for the United States today.