The verdict continues to strengthen about Spielberg’s “Munich.” Check out Holocaust Museum director Walter Reich’s piece in the January 1 Washington Post “Outlook” section, p. B5, under the title “Something Missing in Spielberg’s `Munich’.” Reich’s critique is similar in spirit to Edward Rothstein’s, noted here a few days ago. It’s the “spiral” theory of violence […]

Well, the AI office is officially closed in the week between Xmas and New Year’s, and I, AI editor, elected to just mainly hang around the house for most of the period, with my wife and my three kids coming and going seemingly at random. There was just too much movement to plan anything serious, […]

Letters from Robert Stavins, S. Fred Singer, Ian Parry, Senator Joseph Lieberman and Roger Carstens

A long-forgotten Korean War POW debacle sheds light on the perils of military detention.

Preemption against 21st-century threats is justified and necessary. It may be time, therefore, to move beyond the UN Charter.

A French-born observer examines two new books on immigration and the challenges of American civic nationalism.

The dominant Protestant worldview of American society shapes U.S. foreign policy–and always has.

The Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt authored a political philosophy that retains appeal in some surprising places.

The American moment is ending as power shifts to Asia and other climes. A new global concert must be built.

No pop-culture artifact says “America” better than the pinball machine.