If the 45^th President makes good on his campaign promises, the 46^th President will be the one called upon to “make America great again.”

The leader of the world’s only superpower just “wants to be alone.” Part of the symposium: “America Self-Contained?“

Prophesying doom for America is a hearty perennial with many uses. A fifth wave of declinism in as many decades is now rising.

In Germany, 91 percent of the electorate would have voted for Obama. This comes close to the “Enver Hoxha Standard”, the 98 percent regularly won by Albania’s eternal dictator in the Soviet days. Barack Obama’s harvest in Germany is the mother of all landslides, rendered even more awesome by the miniscule 4 percent Mitt Romney […]

Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum's That Used to Be Us fights the latest upsurge of American declinism to a draw.

One year into his first term, we pretty much knew where a new President was located on the classical ideological axes of American foreign policy: internationalism vs. nationalism, realpolitik (Nixon, George H.W. Bush) vs. idealpolitik (Jimmy Carter). Within internationalism, there has always been an additional distinction: exemplarism vs. interventionism. Would America shine by example and […]

Few differences between Europe and the United States have proven as enduring as the “religion gap.” Almost 200 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in Democracy in America: “On my arrival, the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention.” And then he noticed something more astounding: “In France I […]

Notes from a travelin’ man.

In the fifth year of America’s war in Iraq, some astounding numbers have come to suggest that the tide just might be turning.

Why the West’s best armies are struggling against Hizballah, al-Qaeda in Iraq and other jihadists-at-large.