The tale of a songwriter, with American characteristics.

Intelligence and Surprise Attack: Failure and Success from Pearl Harbor to 9/11 and Beyond by Erik J. Dahl Georgetown University Press, 2013, 288 pp., $29.95 American Spies: Espionage Against the United States from the Cold War to the Present by Michael J. Sulick Georgetown University Press, 2013, 320 pp., $26.95 T ales of spying and surprise […]

China’s Arabic-language television and radio outreach efforts don’t compare to America’s in traditional measures like audience size. But sometimes how many people are tuning in isn’t as important as who is tuning in.

The ASA’s misguided alliance with the BDS movement is just the tip of the iceberg. Academe’s intellectual and moral rot runs deep.

Among the ESA’s many stakeholders, a consensus is forming that the law cannot accomplish its goals without greater reliance on markets. And in Texas, the outlines of just such a market-based approach are coming into focus.

What statesmen come to call various regions of the world predisposes them to adopt certain strategic concepts over others.

Andrew Sullivan is shocked and appalled that President Obama now seems committed to stretching coalition involvement in Libya beyond the narrow confines of the UN Security Council resolution:It’s so surreal, so discordant with what the president has told the American people, so fantastically contrary to everything he campaigned on, that I will simply wait for […]

How a nearly forgotten institution pioneered social networking.

The history of Sevastopol illuminates contemporary geopolitical tensions.