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David Hume

Made in America

America still retains its innovative edge over China and India. But as long as Washington continues to handpick winners and losers, our preeminence is in jeopardy.

The Fair Play Debate: Fair Trade

The odds are against developing countries when it comes to trade. Social safeguards level the playing field.

Castro and the Caudillo

Francoism in Spain did not survive its namesake. Cuba’s brand of communism is likely to suffer a similar fate.

Trading Up

Policymakers can break down regulatory barriers to trade by concerning themselves with consumer, not producer, welfare.

The Culture Club

Not all cultures are equally conducive to progress.

Poverty and Globalization

Protecting consumer interests is the path to global peace and prosperity.

Commentary

Isolating Iran

America needs all the help it can get on Iran—which means making up with Brazil and Turkey.

Response to Nikolas Gvosdev: A Western-style Two Party System, Not 'Managed Democracy' is Georgia's Only Hope

Writing in last week's In the National Interest, Nikolas Gvosdev goes further than most analysts in telling the truth about developments in Georgia since last November's Rose Revolution.

Books & Reviews

Return of the "Commie-Nazis"

Fascism did not die with Hitler and Mussolini in World War II. As recent events show, understanding what fascism means in the 21st century is a lesson worth learning. 

A Champion for the Bourgeoisie

A fictional 19th-century detective disdains Russia's intelligentsia and preaches a bourgeois sermon on virtue and responsible citizenship to Russia's nascent middle class.

Imperialism: the Highest Stage of American Capitalism?

Andrew Bacevich's American Empire is really two books in one: one quite good, the other quite inexplicable.

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May 24, 2013