What made U.S. banks take such disastrous risks? Not what we’ve been led to think.

Edward Luttwak’s The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire
eruditely makes the case that such a thing actually existed.

Perhaps the strangest thing about black America today is how little we talk about it.

A new life of Dr. Seuss, American icon.

President Obama’s Science Envoy and a Nobel laureate in chemistry has an idea for restoring America’s image in the Middle East.

The amazing dumb luck of a Victorian romantic gone native.

The market democracies of the world, whether European or American, will remain the big kids on the block for the foreseeable future.

The sudden deaths of a British Princess and a Polish President don’t have much in common, but the reactions to them do.

While Europeans and Americans argue about who has the more attractive model, the rest of the world is increasingly being tempted by a third option.

There’s plenty of hubris to be found on both sides of the Atlantic.