The icon of Our Lady of Kazan (also known as the Black Virgin of Kazan) is one of the most famous in Russian Orthodoxy.  One of the Virgin’s two feast days coincides with the Day of National Unity. This is appropriate. Kazan occupies an important place in Russian history. Its conquest and destruction in 1552 […]

Little things can indeed mean a lot in China’s challenge to U.S.
preeminence in the Pacific.

A conversation with Bernard Schwartz and William A. Galston on
options for financing U.S. infrastructure renewal.

An apron can tell a great story, if you know how to tie one on.

The global economic crisis has convinced many that the Washington Consensus is “out” and the so-called Beijing Consensus is “in.” As it turns out, three countries—India, Brazil, and South Africa—are leading the way to a new paradigm.

The Palestinian denial of Jewish historical roots in Jerusalem is a denial of their own history, as well.

The United States must disprove the thesis of its decline, now being tested in three global hingepoints.

America’s most important challengers are organized for protracted
competition. But America itself is not—yet.

America is rich in expertise and dollars, but a desperately needed infrastructure renewal depends on something else.

How the Smithsonian tried to outsource an American icon (and failed, thankfully).