July 2026
Can the Private Sector Save Vietnam?
Why the Communist Party wants business to boom.
The Transatlantic Alliance Can’t Survive Without Trust
Washington dismisses NATO’s value at its own peril.
Build a Palestinian State
Save the two-state solution and stabilize the Middle East.
Foreign Policy and the American Character
Foreign policy is the face a nation wears to the world. The minimal motive is the same for all states_the protection of national integrity and interest. But the manner in which a state practices foreign policy is greatly affected by national peculiarities.
A Better Way to Build AI
America’s dominance depends on getting local communities on board.
A New Americanism
Historians’ failure to tell a common American national story has ceded the field to charlatans offering their own twisted versions—and allowed a dangerous strain of American nationalism to take hold.
The Strong Do What They Can—and Suffer What They Must
What Thucydides really thought about power.
The Military and the Republic
What America’s armed forces can—and cannot—do for democracy.
The End of Hamas
The convenient fiction of continued menace.
The Military and the Republic
What America’s armed forces can—and cannot—do for democracy.