Essays
The Restoration Doctrine

An American foreign policy doctrine for the nonpolar moment.

Backsliding in Budapest

Hungarian democracy is in retreat; even the U.S. State Department has begun to notice.

This Winter in Warsaw

Poland finds itself on its own more than ever–and liking it.

Restocking the Toolkit

Proposals for beefing up the non-kinetic side of U.S. statecraft.

The Rwandan Renaissance

What's behind it? And can it last?

Three Reconciliations

Creating a zone of democratic peace from Vancouver to Vladivostok.

Shale Storm

Poland's vast, untapped reserves of shale gas can transform global energy markets and European-Russian relations.

Hope and Change, Czech Style

A conversation with Pavel Bratinka on the legacy of 20th-century totalitarianism in the Czech Republic.

Southern Baptists Go Swimming in Lake Geneva

Some years ago a sizable number of American Evangelicals, perhaps in search of a more colorful version of Christianity, became Eastern Orthodox as a group. For some reason they chose to join the American branch of the Patriarchate of Antioch, one of the most ancient Christian bodies in the world. (Its liturgical language is traditionally […]

Channeling Alexander Hamilton

Crushing debt is prompting Europe to look to an unlikely source for wisdom and inspiration: an American Founding Father.

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