11+ hour, 4+ min ago  (25+ words) Vietnam Human Rights Day reminds Americans that Vietnam's communist government continues to deny its people the basic freedoms we too often take for granted...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago  (24+ words) As AI threatens to automate many technical careers, the liberal arts may prove to be among the last fields of study it cannot replace...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago  (379+ words) Honor constitutes the invisible bonds of trust that make civilization possible. Without it, no society can hope to persist from generation to generation....

6+ day, 8+ hour ago  (458+ words) Citizenship in the kingdom of Heaven demands more than the naked, unbridled pursuit of power Donald Trump has embraced for over a decade now...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago  (188+ words) Katja Hoyer's new book uses the town of Weimar to humanize an often-overlooked chapter of German history: the brief, tragic life of the Weimar Republic...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (41+ words) Shadi Hamid's new book argues that the U. S. has a forceful role to play on the world stage. Yet Hamid makes this case from a liberal perspective that seems incapable of mustering the resolve to decisively confront evil abroad...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (42+ words) Despite the MAGA critique that the United States has been taken for a sucker by Europe, the truth is that European elites have become American vassals, their highest aspiration no longer to remain in Europe but to rise through American-led…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (178+ words) The essence of Western civilization is found in continuing dialogue, not rupture, with the thinkers of Jerusalem and Athens down to the present day...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (37+ words) Blacklisted from China since 1996 for human rights advocacy, Perry Link remains one of America's foremost scholars of China. His new essay collection offers incisive commentary on Chinese politics and for seasoned Sinologists and newcomers alike...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (38+ words) Those of us with personal ties to the Middle East know firsthand that Iran's apocalyptic, fanatical regime has spent decades sowing chaos across the region, with nuclear weapons serving only to make the situation potentially much worse...