As states move to lower numbers of nuclear weapons and need
the ability to detect and monitor smaller items and…
A century ago this month, Europeans stood on the brink of a war so devastating that it forced historians to create a new category: “World…
It's almost Shakespearean. Since the day he arrived in Washington, Barack Obama’s defining foreign-policy passion has been to get the…
Who caused the Cold War? In War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy downplayed the role of human agency in shaping events, writing that “a king is…
In this essay I respond to commentators on Ethics for Enemies, including (1) Caspar Hare on torture and other harms imposed on an agent…
The seismic shocks rocking the Middle East this week — renewed war in Iraq, an emerging radical Sunni Caliphate, and a possible independent…
Seventy years later, it is what they managed to do here that is still so striking and inspiring. The greatest amphibious invasion in…
Why, despite massive public concern, is child trafficking on the rise? Why are unaccompanied migrant children living on the streets and…
Why does Islam seem to dominate Egyptian politics, especially when the country's endemic poverty and deep economic inequality would seem to…
From Aristotle to Acemoglu and Robinson, scholars have argued that democracy possesses powerful redistributive impulses, and imperils…