Half a lifetime ago, on a hot July afternoon, I sat in the living room of international war crimes prosecutor Richard Goldstone, glued to the screen as Dutch television newscasters announced another dreary episode in the ethnic conflict of the former Yugoslavia. This time it was the capture of a small Bosnian municipality—the obscure town […]

President Lyndon Johnson and the “best and the brightest” who staffed his administration led this country into three quagmires.  By far the most famous, but perhaps not the most expensive and dangerous resulted from LBJ’s escalation of the Vietnam War.  More than 50,000 Americans and many more Vietnamese died as a result of that policy; […]

Some readers are wondering why I am spending so much time analyzing the political problems of a former vice president.  It is not out of any personal animus toward Mr. Gore.  Though I’m not expecting any invitations to any of Mr. Gore’s lovely homes, the doors to the stately Mead manor in glamorous Queens are […]

Deradicalization programs are justified by their indirect effects.

Shades of gray envelop political Islam in autocratic Central Asia.

The Assad regime is dying slowly. Washington should facilitate its passing.

Now that Osama bin Laden is no more, we should push our advantage. We have a most unusual source to show us how.

Carlos Saldanha’s animated blue macaw is Hollywood’s soft-power gift to Brazil.

The surprisingly hopeful history of Islamist radicalism in America.

Did Bush’s “forward strategy for freedom” birth the Arab Spring? Umm, no.