Renaissance humanists and their successors asked a question for which we now desperately need an answer.

When President Obama fired General Stanley McChrystal and sent General David Petraeus to Kabul in his stead, he wrote the latest chapter in a long narrative of civil-military tensions in America.

Decades on, we’ve only just begun to ask the difficult questions about assisted reproductive technologies.

American’s many post-Cold War land wars have obscured important strategic truths, among them the real value of the U.S. Navy.

Redefining the strategic niche of the Marine Corps may be the key to a future as glorious as its past.

A technology-enabled temptation to shorten the tether on Coast Guard operations threatens the future of a uniquely resourceful organization.

A former Congressman makes the case for giving the Active Reserves their due.

It’s delusional to think that Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, whether proximate or direct, can end the conflict anytime soon.

The more we rely on personal entertainment devices to keep us company, the lonelier we become.

The question of authenticity has occupied some of the subtlest minds of the last century. Andrew Potter thinks the whole effort is a hoax.