“Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful – but as something…

Boston’s Aftershock: Terror, Myopia and the Shrinking of American Democracy He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes…

Drole de Guerre: France’s War in Mali & Africa’s Islamist Threat There has not been a modern war quite so stage-managed and censored as France’s Operation Serval in Mali since the Falklands/Malvinas…

With God on our Side, Who Could Be Against Us? Please, Lord, protect us from your followers... It is the 21st Century. We live in an age of reason and science. It is an era of progress governed by…

The Rise of a New Czar So Vladimir Putin is once more Russia’s president. Despite substantive evidence of systematic fraud in the national election and vocal protests by a brave minority of ordinary…

Jackboots Treading Softly: The Steady Rise of the European Far Right It all seems so eerily familiar: populist unrest, growing economic instability, and, most disturbingly, the same rhetoric of division,…

”J’accuse...ACTION THIS DAY.” Before the UN, NATO, or the myriad array of international organizations that crowd the world stage today with their impressive sounding acronyms and unimpressive…

The West’s initial response to the Arab Awakening was all at once too slow in coming, maladroit, indecisive, badly informed, and less than sharply focused. At the most seminal moment in modern Middle…