American Foreign Policy and the Failure of Reason
Writing recently in Spectator USA, the estimable Dan McCarthy pointed out that the recent failures of American foreign policy are not simply errors in prudential judgment.[*] There…
Writing recently in Spectator USA, the estimable Dan McCarthy pointed out that the recent failures of American foreign policy are not simply errors in prudential judgment.[*] There…
The communitarian movement has arisen as an effort to address the evident and growing deficiencies of modern liberalism, which seems unable to think beyond the sovereign autonomy…
In this glowing encomium is also buried a sober warning. Such a complex government would, Tocqueville observed, “be ill adapted to a people which has not been…
American history needs to be seen in the context of a larger drama. But there is sharp disagreement over the way we choose to represent that relationship.…
We Americans need to know our history. And we need to know it far better than we have in the past. We are not a people bound…
New York Times best-selling author, AEI scholar, and editor-in-chief of The Dispatch, Jonah Goldberg was at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to talk about tribalism and how it…
Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea. Bradley C. S. Watson. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020. Bradley Watson, professor of political…
The men who established the American republic were acutely aware that they lived in a pivotal era in human history, and they eagerly rose to the occasion.…
Having studied eighteenth-century America all our adult lives, we are prepared to offer a generalization: the more one learns about the subject, the less prone one becomes…
From the 1870s-1890s the U.S. Navy experienced a strategical awakening. Changes in technology, international politics, and other factors drove officers to develop new concepts of naval professionalism,…
The careful reader does not have to be a devotee of Jürgen Habermas or Michel Foucault to appreciate that discourse can often be about power, and efforts…
Mel Bradford’s interest in the Founding follows naturally from his Agrarianism. He believed that, unlike the French and Russian Revolutions, America’s was a conservative revolution. Both the…
A dispute has broken out in the United States over the Supreme Court. US President Trump wants to immediately occupy the seat of the late Ruth Bader…
Sitting at my desk in Louisiana the other week, where it was already as hot as it gets in Boston on the summer’s hottest day, my title,…
On the stump in New Boston, New Hampshire in early January 1852, Franklin Pierce gave a long oration during which free-soil hecklers forced him to address his…