It’s still early here on the East Coast, but I’d wager Alex Massie’s penned the best quip I’m likely to read all day: One other thing: “Some of our NATO...
Late last month, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took a beating at the ballot box, where his party lost gubernatorial races in five states and the mayorship of the capital city,...
There’s a time and a place for pieces like these, and this isn’t it. Deborah Howell of the Washington Post writes that: Women and men read The Post in roughly...
James Poulos has identified the one thing above all that guarantees success in foreign policy writing: the catchphrase! Fukuyama had “The End of History”, Huntington had the “Clash of Civilizations”....
Damir is correct in his addendum that such was my intended meaning, though in retrospect I worded it pretty badly. I would certainly agree with him that intimate knowledge, if...
David Polansky’s compelling points on empathy in foreign relations still fall short for me in some respects. Here’s the crux: The willingness to take another state’s interests seriously is a...
