It’s a classic, bipartisan, and ongoing dilemma—but revisiting the wisdom of Jeane Kirkpatrick’s “Dictatorships & Double Standards” can help us navigate it.

To see trouble coming from a greater distance, you need to step back and get perspective from history.

From Russia and Ukraine to Serbia and Montenegro, national churches are being weaponized.

Saint Seraphim, patron saint of Russian nukes? Dmitry Adamsky’s Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy tells the story of how the Kremlin and Russian Orthodox Church came to embrace one another, and how the relationship continues to shape Russia’s identity and worldview.

It’s been five years since Boris Nemtsov was gunned down in front of the Kremlin. His legacy will survive Putin’s attempts to destroy it.

The space between the cosmopolitan and progressive politics of the left and the vulgar nationalism of the populist right is shrinking. My own recent experience running for office attests to it.

They have all won awards (one the Nobel Prize). They have all struggled and sacrificed. They have all pursued excellence and integrity. They have all fought for accountable government, rule of law, human rights—and a better world.

The third and latest volume of Paul Rahe’s history of classical Sparta attempts to shed new light on a period and a city-state of which we still know little.

President Trump’s fondness for Sunset Boulevard reveals more than his taste in film—though for reasons that he himself might not consciously realize.

As members of Congress seek to reassert greater sway over military matters, they must also be ready for the heightened obligations that will come with it.