AS WITH ALL history, capitalism’s may not repeat but it does rhyme. Periods of freer enterprise give way to ones with a more meddlesome state. When change comes, it is after crisis, occasionally ...

It has always struck me as odd that the most thoughtful advocates of protectionism within the conservative movement also tend to be the fiercest advocates of non-interventionism. Patrick Buchanan ...

In a polarized environment, where political elites have staked out opposing positions on whether to vaccinate against a plague, we might not expect much agreement on complex matters of military ...

A Sense of Power: The Roots of America’s Global Role. John A. Thompson, 2015. The story of the United States’ ascendance to the pinnacle of global power has been told many times before, by authors ...

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma we listen to a talk from Eli Lake, a national security journalism fellow at the Clements Center and a syndicated columnist on foreign affairs for Bloomberg. Lake ...

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This is part of a debate about humanitarian intervention. Click here to read other contributions by Richard Just, Leon Wieseltier, and Michael Kazin. There is a great deal of debate, not least in both ...

Back in March, Roger Cohen wrote of how Iraq taught him to be cautious about intervening recklessly in countries we don't understand: There are many reasons I oppose a Western military intervention in ...

The Afghan Taliban' takeover of Kabul on August 15 once again proved that the US interventionist policy based on hegemony had failed. However, the price of this failure is too high for both the Afghan ...

Some 40 years ago on April 30, when the last American soldier crawled into a helicopter that flew away from the roof of the US Embassy in Saigon, leaving behind terrified Vietnam refugees, the US ...