Most American towns put hideous power lines up in the air, where they are predictably battered by storms. Why?

Pre- and postmodern “barbarians” have much in common, with sobering implications for U.S. strategy and the War on Terror.

A sometimes realist takes issue with a sometimes idealist over a long-deceased Greek.

On January 10, 2007, TAI editor Adam Garfinkle sat with the outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations to discuss political philosophy, foreign policy and bureaucratic craft.

A short history of Suburbia, its discontents and its ironies.

Pace Allen Lynch, it’s both possible and wise for Western policy to challenge Putin’s anti-democratic ways.

Nope, it’s neither possible nor wise.

Fear of revived Russian power is exaggerated.

America’s charitable foundations are benign, influential—and endangered.

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