The British Bulldog's unique ability to win Stalin's respect and trust in August 1942 proved that great national leadership matters.
Finding monsters under the bed and bogeymen in the closet. Why exaggerating the Iranian threat is bad for U.S. foreign policy.
The "new" anti-Semitism of the Arab and Muslim worlds bears much resemblance to the "old" anti-Semitism of Europe. As the latter became a warrant for genocide, it would be foolish to underestimate the lethality of the former.
A comment on the determined mystification of the Holocaust.
Germany, led by its generation of '68, has finally found itself comfortable with its allies, its power and even itself.
Of all the remarks philosophers have made about history, few are as simple or powerful as Hegel's comment that history is a butcher's block. It is the blood of innocents that flows most freely from that block, their cries muffled by those who shou